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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137328
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504888
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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, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approach
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513229
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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137297
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484065
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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 Institute - 2008
questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137351
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867499
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributions
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504895
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209526