Self-employment and risk aversion -: evidence from psychological test data

被引：144

作者：

Ekelund, J

Johansson, E

Järvelin, MR

Lichtermann, D

机构：

[1] Res Inst Finnish Econ, Helsinki 00120, Finland

[2] Natl Publ Hlth Inst, Dept Mol Med, Helsinki, Finland

[3] Univ Oulu, Dept Publ Hlth, Oulu, Finland

[4] Univ Oulu, Dept Gen Med, Oulu, Finland

[5] Imperial Coll Sch Med, Dept Epidemiol & Publ Hlth, London, England

来源：

LABOUR ECONOMICS | 2005年 / 12卷 / 05期

关键词：

self-employment; risk aversion; psychological test data;

D O I：

10.1016/j.labeco.2004.02.009

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper investigates the effect of risk aversion on an individual's probability of being self-employed by using psychometric data from a large, population-based cohort of Finns born in 1966. We found that our measure of risk aversion,. a facet of a basic temperament dimension, ham avoidance, has a significant negative effect on self-employment status. Since this measure is directly derived from a highly valid biosocial theory of normal personality variation (Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 44 (1987) 573) whose scalable dimensions manifest well before adulthood and remain stabile over lifetime, we argue that risk aversion is a psychological factor causative of the choice to become self-employed. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：649 / 659

页数：11

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