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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Parker, Simon; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

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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Who Values The Status of The Entrepreneur?

Mirjam van Praag - 2009

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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Childcare Subsidies and Labor Supply: Evidence from a large Dutch Reform

Bettendorf, L.J.H.; Jongen, Egbert L.W.; Muller, Paul - 2012

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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Explaining the Wealth Holdings of Different Cohorts: Productivity Growth and Social Security

Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999

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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A New Approach to estimate the Wage Returns to Work-related Training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

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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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002

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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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Vuuren, Aico; Berkhout, Peter - 2004

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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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

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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Labor market prospects, search intensity and the transition from college to work

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Vuuren, Aico; Berkhout, Peter - 2005

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 … returns to work experience. Employment rates at graduation could be increased from 40 percent to 65 percent if alls students …

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...

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