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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Roy; Wit, Gerrit de - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode is associated with higher levels of schooling and wealth, whereas … managerial experience, new venture start-up capital requirements and risk promote the takeover mode. Entrepreneurs whose parents … entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...

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Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

n this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 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 … (indirect) support for the argument that the higher returns to education for entrepreneurs is due to fewer (organizational …

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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business … business motivation. Moreover, younger entrepreneurs benefit from their IEE in terms of business performance, indicating that …

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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

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