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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
an instrumental variables approachand a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European countries and the … the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007
ambiguities and estimates it for data from 23 OECD countries between 1974 and 2002. The empirical results confirm the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280373
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383255
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372966
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720700
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The shadows of the past : how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009
macro-perspective. -- Implicit Institutions ; Entrepreneurship ; Socialism ; Capitalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857881
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. -- entrepreneurship ; jack-of-all-trades ; risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523510
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Self-employment and health : barriers or benefits?
Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Kippersluis, Hans van; Thurik, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191279