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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross section and...
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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data
Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822365
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Caractéristiques des entrepreneurs et conception de leurs business plans : le cas des primés au concours du Réseau Entreprendre Paris
Hikkerova, Lubica; Paré, Jean-Louis; Rédis, Jean; … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
In this article, we propose a method to evaluate enterprise creation projects based on the study of profiles of entrepreneurs and project teams, as well as external factors. This method is based on the theories of human capital and social capital, notabl
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860493
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Impact de l’émotion sur la performance managériale. Etude de cas de management en France.
MORGUE, Elodie; LESZCZYNSKA, Dorota - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
emotions on the physical and mental behavior, and an emotional kind of management performance. A conceptual model derived from … highlights certain managerial lines, which proposes to assure sustainable employee performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860523
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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups
Gelderen, A.M. van; Frese, M.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2000
Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972927
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558947