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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'International Small Business Journal' (2013). Volume 31, issue 1, pages 23-33. Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered...

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in Entrepreneurship Research Journal (2012), 2(3), 1-27. Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and...

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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper was published in the Economics of Education Review (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523. The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and...

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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft

Aschhoff, Birgit; Doherr, Thorsten; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>; … - 2006

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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …

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