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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Forthcoming in the <I>International Journal of Population Research</I>, Vol. 2012.<P> Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch....</p></i>
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257249
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper has resulted in a publication in <I>Labour Economics</I> (2013), 23, 50-56.<P> The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs...</p></i>
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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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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