Table 2.

Impact of the big five on self-employment survival stints (regression results).

	Successful stints			Unsuccessful stints
	Effect		SE	Effect		SE
(Intercept)	3.61	***	0.33	2.35	***	0.26
Gender	−0.32	***	0.10	−0.09		0.06
Age	0.13	***	0.02	0.01		0.02
Age2/100	−0.13	***	0.02	0.01		0.02
Incorporation of business	0.15		0.10	−0.13	*	0.06
Migration background	−0.20	*	0.10	−0.25	***	0.10
Openness to experience	0.17		0.09	−0.09		0.05
Conscientiousness	−0.14		0.08	−0.05		0.05
Extroversion	0.20	*	0.08	0.09	*	0.06
Agreeableness	−0.37	***	0.12	0.00		0.07
Emotional stability	−0.09		0.06	−0.06		0.10
Tertiary education	0.06		0.11	0.10		0.08
x Openness to experience	−0.08		0.13	0.06		0.09
x Conscientiousness	0.24	*	0.11	−0.03		0.07
x Extroversion	−0.46	***	0.09	−0.17	***	0.05
x Agreeableness	0.02		0.14	0.09		0.08
x Emotional stability	0.11		0.11	0.12		0.08
Financial prosperity	0.09	*	0.10	0.29	***	0.06
x Openness to experience	0.25	*	0.10	0.10		0.06
x Conscientiousness	0.00		0.11	0.12		0.07
x Extroversion	−0.07		0.10	−0.12		0.08
x Agreeableness	0.24		0.14	0.10		0.08
x Emotional stability	0.12		0.11	0.24	***	0.07
(Log Scale)	−0.04		0.03	−0.07	***	0.02
χ2	323.36			359.66
Degrees of freedom	118			118
p	0.00			0.00
N	1,621			1,621

^* p < 0.05;

^** p < 0.01;

^*** p < 0.001.