The Life Partner and the Life Satisfaction of the Entrepreneur

Aliaa El Shoubaki and Meike Stephan

Central European Business Review, 2018, vol. 2018, issue 3, 26-41

Abstract: The life satisfaction of entrepreneurs is a subject of increasing importance. Research shows that entrepreneurs are more satisfied with their jobs when compared to wage earners. However, it remains poorly understood how satisfied entrepreneurs are with their lives. We argue that the family can contribute largely to how individuals feel about their lives. In particular, research suggests that the life partner influences the individual's life satisfaction differently depending on their occupation (employed or self-employed). Thus, in this paper we investigate the effect of life partners on the life satisfaction of entrepreneurs. To do so, we use arguments from the family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and test them using data from the 2016 cohort of the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) and regression models. We find that the life partner contributes positively to the life satisfaction of entrepreneurs and wage earners. This effect is greater for entrepreneurs without employees as compared to entrepreneurs with employees. These results contribute to the understanding of an under researched outcome of entrepreneurship which is the life satisfaction of entrepreneurs.

Keywords: life satisfaction; entrepreneurship; self-employment; life partner; family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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