Self-Employed but Looking: A Labor Market Experiment

Koellinger, Philipp; Mell, Julija; Pohl, Irene; Roessler, Christian; Treffers, Theresa

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“…In addition, individuals who exited for unfavorable reasons are expected to have more trouble finding a job in wage work, even if they would desire this, which is another reason for why they may intend to become entrepreneurs again. It is well-known that employers are less likely to hire persons with prior entrepreneurship experience compared to individuals without such experience (Koellinger et al, 2015;Baptista et al, 2012). Prior entrepreneurship experience, for example, suggests that someone is better fit for entrepreneurship than for wage work (Markman and Baron, 2003;Zhao et al, 2010) and may be likely to decide to start up his own firm again sometime in the future.…”

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Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions

Pathak

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeThe study examines the role that societal levels of self-control – behavioral and cognitive self-control – play in shaping entrepreneurial intentions after both favorable and unfavorable prior exits.Design/methodology/approachUsing Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data set on the nature of entrepreneurial exits from 32 countries between 2007 and 2010 and supplementing this data set with country-level scores of behavioral and cognitive self-controls, the authors test five hypotheses on the effects of societal levels of self-control on post-exit entrepreneurial intentions.FindingsThe study finds that individuals who exit entrepreneurship for negative reasons (versus positive reasons) are more likely to form entrepreneurial intentions. Further, societal levels of self-control moderate this likelihood.Originality/valueThe study invokes the psychological construct of self-control in the context of entrepreneurship. The novelty lies in rendering self-control as also a higher order societal level construct and then also empirically testing the role that societal self-control plays in shaping entrepreneurial intentions after prior exits. Societal self-control accounts for cross-country variance in why individuals in some societies are better suited and capable to return to entrepreneurship despite unfavorable prior exits.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions

Pathak

2021

IJEBR

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Self-Employed but Looking: A Labor Market Experiment

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Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions

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