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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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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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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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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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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they …

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Haiti : Can Non-Public Schools Fill the Gap for Poor Children?

World Bank - 2015

Worldwide, some 57 million primary school age children don't have the chance to go to school. Many factors hold these … children back: poverty, poor health and overcrowded or faraway facilities. The problem is most acute in Sub-Saharan Africa …, where some 30 million primary school age children aren't enrolled, but many countries in other regions are also still …

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

Young, Mary Eming (contributor) - 2002

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Investing in young children : an early childhood development guide for policy dialogue and project preparation

Naudeau, Sophie (contributor) - 2010

children, et cetera), and (iii) assessing the quality of the latest evidence on each topic and identifying the knowledge gaps …

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