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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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Why Are the Returns to Education Higher forEntrepreneurs than for Employees?
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in the economy. Furthermore, more educated workers typically end up in wage employment and prefer nonfarm … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …
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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vuuren, Aico van; Berkhout, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …
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