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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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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
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Portfolios of Exchange Relationships: An Empirical Investigation of an Online Marketplace for IT Services
Radkevitch, U.L.; Heck, H.W.G.M. van; Koppius, O.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007
Small firms face distinct problems and opportunities when procuring IT resources. Whereas previous work focused at the level of firm or buyer-supplier dyad, we address portfolios of buyer-supplier relationships at an online marketplace for IT services. Using the portfolio approach, we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288368
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Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators
Jansen, J.J.P.; Bosch, F.A.J. van den; Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006
innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments. Through this richer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288480
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The Effect of Relational Constructs on Relationship Performance
Verhoef, P.C.; Franses, Ph.H.B.F.; Hoekstra, J.C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2000
We examine the effect of relational constructs, such as satisfaction, trust and commitment on relationship performance … performance. Our empirical results provide strong evidence of duration dependent effects of satisfaction and trust, but we find … only weak evidence of such effects on performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288796