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Rigotti, Luca; Ryan, Matthew; Vaithianathan, Rhema - EconWPA - 2001

This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude … toward uncertainty. Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous. An entrepreneur, who owns …'s willingness to work with the uncertain technology. The general equilibrium setting allows us to explore the impact of innovation …

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...

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Industry Choices and Social Interactions of Entrepreneurs: Identification by Residential Addresses

Huang, Rocco - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that industry choices of entrepreneurs are determined by their social networks. The separation of residential and business addresses helps us establish the causality, because we can safely argue that residential addresses determine social networks but do not directly affect...

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Family background and schooling outcomes before and during the transition - Evidence from the Baltic countries

Hazans, Mihails; Rastrigina, Olga; Trapeznikova, Ija - EconWPA - 2005

Parental education is found to have a strong positive effect on propensity to enroll in and complete secondary and tertiary education, both in Soviet times and during transition, but mother’s education effect have been weakening. A human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russian...

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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating to the integration of young people into decent work have in recent times once again begun to occupy a central position in Government Policy issues. Recently co-ordinated...

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The Challenge of Youth Unemployment

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents an overview of the youth unemployment problem and youth employment policy principally from the European perspective although it is hoped that much of the coment and analysis is relevant for a much broader range of countries. Its intention is to raise issues rather than...

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New evidence on the effect of time in school on early achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study estimates the effect of expanding enrollment possibilities in early eduction on the achievement of young children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on their fourth birthday. Second, children having their...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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