The Roots of Entrepreneurship and Labour Demand: Individual Ability and Low Risk Aversion

By C. V. Praag, J. Cramer. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission (2017, background): “Risk tolerance is also an important driver of entrepreneurship as shown, among others, by van Praag and Cramer (2001), Cramer et al. (2002), and Kan and Tsai (2006).”
Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, unknown): “The selfemployment probability and the entry probability increase with higher risk tolerance at increasing rates confirming earlier results (Van Praag and Cramer 2001; Hartog et al. 2002; Caliendo et al. 2009).”
Entrepreneurship barriers and entrepreneurial inclination among Malaysian postgraduate students (2011, background): “Studies have shown that risk construct dominates literature on entrepreneurship and the ability to bear risk has been identified as the primary characteristic facing entrepreneurs ( Van Praag and Cramer, 2001”
The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance: the case of Vietnam (2012, unknown): “…the effects of human capital and social capital on entrepreneurial performance, usually focusing on either human capital alone (Cooper et al. 1994; Van Praag and Cramer 2001) or social capital alone (Yoon 1991; Aldrich and Reese 1993; Bates 1994; Pennings et al. 1998) rather than their…”
Barriers to women achieving their entrepreneurial potential: Women and risk (2005, background): “” The implication of the preparedness to take risks is highlighted by van Praag and Cramer (2001, p. 45)”
Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment (2012, background): “…although there is some disagreement about the magnitude and possible non-linearities in the relationship (see Rauch and Frese 2007; Caliendo, Fossen and Kritikos 2009, 2010a, 2010b; Hartog, et al. 2010; Fairlie 2002; Van Praag and Cramer 2001; Puri and Robinson 2005 for a few examples).”
The Mind in the Middle: Taking Stock of Affect and Cognition Research in Entrepreneurship (2015, unknown): “Van Praag, C.M., & Cramer, J. S. 2001.”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, unknown): “This definition of transition into self-employment is consistent with an extensive literature (e.g., Amit, Muller, & Cockburn, 1995; Burke, FitzRoy, & Nolan, 2002; Evans & Leighton, 1989; Parker, 2004; Taylor, 1996; Van Praag & Cramer, 2001).”
The role of intellectual capital in the success of new ventures (2011, background): “The dimension of human capital includes six intangible assets: (1) The entrepreneur’s knowledge of the business, measured by means of his/her experience, using his/her number of years’ experience in the sector as the indicator (Van de Ven et al. 1984; Sandberg and Hofer 1987; Duchesneau and Gartner ”
The Motivation to Become an Entrepreneur (2005, methodology): “Borrowing from the previously discussed economic models (Campbell, 1992; Praag and Cramer, 2001; Levesque et al., 2002), we substituted perceived net desirability for perceived desirability, believing that people may be motivated to become entrepreneurs if they believe self-employment is more…”
Failure factors in small and medium-sized enterprises: qualitative study from an attributional perspective (2010, background): “In general, the argument that firms founded or managed by individuals with greater human capital perform better than other firms has been extensively scrutinized and corroborated by literature, examples are those of Bates (1990), Bruderl et al. (1992), Storey (1994), Pennings et al. (1998), Van Pra”
Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey (2009, background): “Cramer et al. (2002) and Van Praag and Cramer (2001) found differences in risk attitudes for persons who had been either in entrepreneurial or employed positions for a number of years.”
The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, unknown): “The human capital of the entrepreneur herself is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture (Van Praag and Cramer, 2001).”
Is the Tendency to Engage in Entrepreneurship Genetic? (2008, background): “These include (1) self-employment (Amit et al. 1995, Evans and Leighton 1989, Taylor 1996, Burke et al. 2000, Van Praag and Cramer 2001, Parker 2004), which we operationalize with the questions: “Are you self-employed?” and “In your working life, how long have you been self employed?””
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed (2011, unknown): “We employ the sample selection model for binary dependent variables suggested by Van de Ven and Van Praag (1981), which takes into account that exit from self-employment is a binary outcome.”