Self-employment after socialism. Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital.

Autor/inn/en	Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina
Titel	Self-employment after socialism. Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital.
Quelle	Jena: Univ. u.a. (2012), 17 S., 557 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Jena economic research papers. 2012,022
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Entscheidung; Generationenbeziehung; Transformation; Unternehmer; Arbeitspapier; System; Selbstständiger; Deutschland; Deutschland-Westliche Länder; Deutschland-Östliche Länder
Abstract	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.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2012/4