Occupational choice and self-employment. Are they related?

Autor/inn/en	Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Occupational choice and self-employment. Are they related?
Quelle	Berlin (2013), 40 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 533
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Risikobereitschaft; Einkommenserwartung; Unternehmensgründung; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitsmarktrisiko; Berufliche Selbstständigkeit; Berufsgruppe; Qualifikationsanforderung; Berufswahl; Unternehmer; Auswirkung; Entscheidungskriterium; Quote; Selbstständiger
Abstract	Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of future entrepreneurs at the time of labor market entry is partly guided by a taste for skill variety, the prospect of high earnings, and occupational earnings risk. Entrepreneurial intentions may also emerge after gaining work experience in a chosen occupation. We find that occupations characterized by high levels of unemployment and earnings risk, relatively many job opportunities, and high self-employment rates foster the founding of an own business. Also, people who fail to achieve an occupation-specific income have a tendency for self-employment. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/3