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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...

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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010

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 to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

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 Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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Productivity convergence in OECD manufacturing industries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

-countries over the period 1972-1992 show large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital …

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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

. Specific attention is paid to the unobserved talent bias. Moreover, the effect of the emergence of so called knowledge …

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Multitasking: productivity effects and gender differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...

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Innovation, industry evoluation and employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the linksbetween innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen thelatter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

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