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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...
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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818438
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The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification
Kirzner, Israel M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main … contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan, Eliasson and Henrekson (2007). …
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