Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
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- Michael Fritsch & Alina Rusakova, 2012. "Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 456, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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Keywords
Entrepreneurship; parental role models; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2012-06-25 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HRM-2012-06-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2012-06-25 (Labour Economics)
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