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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economists for more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship in two distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economics and b) as it develops in the transitional context....

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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for...

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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about attaining a higher living standard and expected low job...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Mongolian Transition

Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years...

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Integrated Monetary and Exchange Rate Frameworks

Souza, Lúcio Vinhas de - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

Here the author empirically estimates if the different monetary and exchange rate frameworks observed in the Accession Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics do yield different outcomes in terms of level and variance of a set of nominal and real variables. The author follows and...

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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Is there such a Thing called Scientific Waste?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Klamer, Arjo - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Science is a winner-take-all profession in which only few contributions get excessive attention and the large majority of papers remains receives scant or no attention. This so-called ‘waste’ together with all the competitive strategies of scientists seeking attention is part and parcel of...

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Economics: An Emerging Small World?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....

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Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of high school on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locate each student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant, a broker or a...

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