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Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
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Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Employment, Social Systems, Entrepreneurship