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The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to Reduce Adjustment Costs
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
1000 Dutch employers is used to determine the relative preference for the constituent characteristics of these employment …
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Biases in Willingness-To-Pay Measures from Multinomial Logit Estimates due to Unobserved Heterogeneity
Berg, Vincent van den; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
It is a common finding in empirical discrete choice studies that the estimated mean relative values of the coefficients (i.e. WTP's) from multinomial logit (MNL) estimations differ from those calculated using mixed logit estimations, where the mixed logit has the better statistical fit. However,...
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who …, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we … experience with the remainder due to unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due …
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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
substantial for many individuals and that it varies strongly with personal characteristics such as age and gender.Women suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209443
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The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, André van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2012
during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after birth, as well as effects on …
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: An Equilibrium Model
Fok, Dennis; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513242
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Does Accessibility to Higher Education matter? Choice Behavior of High School Graduates in the Netherlands
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision-making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices. Specifically, our modeling approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209513
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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance
Praag, B.M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary value for individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction as scored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....
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