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Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment: Gender and the entrepreneurial personality
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In this paper, the authors investigated why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men, and found that women's lower preference for becoming self-employed plays an important role in explaining their lower involvement in self employment.About:
This article is published in Journal of Economic Psychology.The article was published on 2012-04-01. It has received 304 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preference & Personality.read more
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment, based on a large, representative German household panel.
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Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the differences between business owners motivated by opportunity and necessity in terms of their socioeconomic characteristics, personality, and perceptions of entrepreneurial support, and found that those who prefer being a business owner and those who have more favorable perceptions of financial start-up support are more likely to be an opportunity versus a necessity business owner.
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Gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions: A TPB multi-group analysis at factor and indicator level
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a survey with business students indicate that the effect of gender on entrepreneurial intentions is mediated via personal attitudes and perceived behavioral control but not social norms, and that women are somewhat less driven toward entrepreneurship by beliefs of internal control that are more dominant in predicting perceived control.
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Gender effects on entrepreneurial intention: a meta‐analytical structural equation model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors specify a model in which the relationship between gender and entrepreneurial intention (EI) is mediated by three essential motivational constructs (i.e. attitude toward starting a business, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control).
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The Molecular Genetic Architecture of Self-Employment
Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos,Cornelius A. Rietveld,Niina Eklund,Niina Eklund,Philipp Koellinger,Fernando Rivadeneira,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Georgina A. Ankra-Badu,Sebastian E. Baumeister,Daniel J. Benjamin,Reiner Biffar,Stefan Blankenberg,Dorret I. Boomsma,David Cesarini,Francesco Cucca,Eco J. C. de Geus,George Dedoussis,Panos Deloukas,Maria Dimitriou,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Johan G. Eriksson,Christian Gieger,Vilmundur Gudnason,Birgit Höhne,Rolf Holle,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Aaron Isaacs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Magnus Johannesson,Marika Kaakinen,Mika Kähönen,Stavroula Kanoni,Maarit A. Laaksonen,Jari Lahti,Lenore J. Launer,Terho Lehtimäki,Marisa Loitfelder,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Silvia Naitza,Ben A. Oostra,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Katja Petrovic,Lydia Quaye,Olli T. Raitakari,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Paul Scheet,David Schlessinger,Carsten Oliver Schmidt,Helena Schmidt,Reinhold Schmidt,Andrea Senft,Albert V. Smith,Tim D. Spector,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Rauli Svento,Antonio Terracciano,Antonio Terracciano,Emmi Tikkanen,Emmi Tikkanen,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Jorma Viikari,Henry Völzke,H.-Erich Wichmann,Philipp S. Wild,Sara M. Willems,Gonneke Willemsen,Frank J. A. van Rooij,Patrick J. F. Groenen,André G. Uitterlinden,Albert Hofman,Roy Thurik +77 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that common SNPs when considered jointly explain about half of the narrow-sense heritability of self-employment estimated in twin data (σ(g)(2)/σ(P)(2) = 25%, h(2) = 55%).
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