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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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School Choice and Competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

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

entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This discussion paper has resulted in ch. 4 of <A href="http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=edksC0nRPZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=allesintitel:+%22Labor+Market+Institutions+and+Public+Regulation%22&ots=-umxBkjdnT&sig=oeFDTjhnSeo-w-4nuTjTJpuaUr8#v=onepage&q=&f=false">'Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation'</A>, pp. 123-61, (Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.)), 2004, MIT Press, 228 p.

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …

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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success

Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship …. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus …

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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