Sentence examples similar to capital traits from inspiring English sources

Importantly, the authors' experimental design rules out several alternative explanations (i.e., unmeasured human capital, personality traits, or search costs) for the relationships between locus of control, reservation wages, and search intensity.

This sampling scheme yielded a total of 209 students, who responded to an extensive survey that gleaned information on their interest and attitudes toward entrepreneurship, stocks of social and cultural capital, personality traits, values and beliefs, and general world view.

Citing Roemer (1998) and Corak (2013) argues that circumstances affect opportunity by three channels: social capital, genetic traits, and family values, and that while policies that affect social capital tend to be accepted, less consensus is placed on policies intending to offset genetic advantages, and within-family investments.

We examine the relative importance of two principal sets of factors, i.e., stocks of youth human/social capital and personality traits that could serve as predictors of the 'entrepreneurial attitude' or the propensity to venture into business startup, self-employment and private sector risk taking behavior.

Our study makes an important contribution to the literature by including two principal sets of factors – stocks of youth human/social capital and personality traits – in predicting entrepreneurial proclivity of college students, and by empirically assessing their relative importance in developing this propensity.

As for what American pop culture thinks of Washington as a city, as opposed to a government, one need only look at "Minority Report," in which the capital's defining trait, even years in the future, is its historically high crime rate.

A substantial entrepreneurship research literature indicates that the socio-demographic traits, human capital resources and attitudes towards entrepreneurship could explain the start-up decision in varying degrees (Wagner & Ziltener, 2008).

Although Romney himself isn't close to being rich enough to join the Forbes 400, his reliance on capital gains is a trait he shares with most of the ultrawealthy.

He emerges as a man with a hot temper and a taste for marijuana -- not admirable traits but not capital offenses either.

Policy entrepreneurs are effective when they have certain behavioural traits, institutional constraints, political capital and network position.

In addition, we posit that parental social and economic capital, youth's values, beliefs, and personality traits, youth's stock of social capital all directly and collectively influence the youth's attitude toward entrepreneurship (see Warmuth et al. 2014).