- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 6
- Self-Employment aft...
- Abgebildete Person
- Erschienen
- 4. Juni 2012
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2012-022
- Schlagwort(e)
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Entrepreneurship
human capital
parental role models
- Zusammenfsg.
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Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development – parental role models – for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial attitudes among East Germans with a tertiary degree that have experienced a particularly strong ideological indoctrination. However, we find a significant and positive relationship between the presence of a parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive relationship holds irrespective of the level of education.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; D0 - General