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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861838
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversionand balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may alsohelp explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence about … the effects of riskaversion on selection into entrepreneurship.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486995
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Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training : A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Dionisius, Regina; Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
as wages, apprenticeship system-related factors and allocation of tasks to apprentices on the cost-benefit ratio using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859724
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable?An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based onthe personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction ofentrepreneurial success...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863223
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522199
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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
paper investigates variations in recruitment to self-employment and in self-employment performance by gender and by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859526
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades?Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear’sTheory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009496229
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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