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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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From early child development to human development : investing in our children's future

Young, Mary E. (contributor) - 2002

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...

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I can't get no Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new insights about the motivations and goals of nascent...

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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur

Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...

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Who values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...

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Experiments in family planning : lessons from the developing world

Cuca, Roberto; Pierce, Catherine S. - 1977

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Development, modernization, and son preference in fertility decisions

Filmer, Deon - 2008

developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family … that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of … wellbeing if there are quantity-quality trade-offs that result in fewer material and emotional resources allocated to children …

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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...

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