Self-employment and psychometric measure of risk aversion: a replication and extension

We examine whether the psychometric feature, called fear of uncertainty, predicts self-employment choice by individuals. Using the most recent Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 (NFBC1966) data from 2012, we find no clear evidence of such an effect. We also explore whether this effect might have cha...

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Main Authors: Marko Korhonen, Rauli Svento, Mikko Vaaramo
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Northern Finland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2019.1644429
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:27:y:2020:i:9:p:697-702 2023-05-15T17:42:17+02:00 Self-employment and psychometric measure of risk aversion: a replication and extension Marko Korhonen Rauli Svento Mikko Vaaramo http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2019.1644429 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2019.1644429 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:40:40Z We examine whether the psychometric feature, called fear of uncertainty, predicts self-employment choice by individuals. Using the most recent Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 (NFBC1966) data from 2012, we find no clear evidence of such an effect. We also explore whether this effect might have changed due to increase of females in labour market, endogenous adaptation in risk preferences or because of the self-employment experience itself affects risk preferences. These effects are not significant, either. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
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description We examine whether the psychometric feature, called fear of uncertainty, predicts self-employment choice by individuals. Using the most recent Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 (NFBC1966) data from 2012, we find no clear evidence of such an effect. We also explore whether this effect might have changed due to increase of females in labour market, endogenous adaptation in risk preferences or because of the self-employment experience itself affects risk preferences. These effects are not significant, either.
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Rauli Svento
Mikko Vaaramo
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Self-employment and psychometric measure of risk aversion: a replication and extension
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title_full Self-employment and psychometric measure of risk aversion: a replication and extension
title_fullStr Self-employment and psychometric measure of risk aversion: a replication and extension
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