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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450787
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399735
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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
survival of family firms lacking within-family successors are discussed.<P> …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209489
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016255
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987445
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136919
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Who Values The Status of The Entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036246
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921780
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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 endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838535
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased … better outcomes from this process. Finally, Mexico shows large firm dynamics with many new firms entering the battle but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136875