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We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
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the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …
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this reform with a difference-in-differences strategy, using parents with older children as a control group. We find that … also an increase in an earned income tax credit for the same treatment group over the same period. The joint reform …
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It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...
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This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and … an important route for students from a lower socioeconomic background. …
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In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model … includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation …
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While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
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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. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...
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