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Table 1 Correlation matrix of working conditions

From: Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?Können Arbeitsbedingungen das „return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle“ erklären?

 

Flexibility

Strategic autonomy

Operational autonomy

Non-repetitive work

New tasks

Trying new things

Exposure to risk

Strained by risk

Pressure

Overstrain

Flexibility

1.00

         

Work outcome not prescribed in detail

0.13

1.00

        

Free how to perform work

0.08

0.22

1.00

       

Non-repetitive work

0.01

0.06

0.25

1.00

      

New tasks

− 0.03

− 0.08

0.08

0.19

1.00

     

Trying new things

− 0.01

− 0.05

0.09

0.12

0.35

1.00

    

Exposure to risk

− 0.06

− 0.14

− 0.09

0.03

0.13

0.07

1.00

   

Strained by risk

− 0.09

− 0.10

− 0.06

− 0.03

0.09

0.06

0.34

1.00

  

Pressure

− 0.18

− 0.23

− 0.13

0.01

0.22

0.15

0.18

0.14

1.00

 

Overstrain

− 0.21

− 0.20

− 0.13

0.00

0.17

0.12

0.20

0.14

0.35

1.00

  1. The data set used is the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2012. All working conditions are coded as dummies, 1 indicating a higher prevalence of the respective working condition. The precise questions underlying these variables are provided in the text (Sect. 2)