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endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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>entrepreneurial economy</I>. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has …, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
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Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...
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Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...
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This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...
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Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move to
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An increasing demand for both formal and informal care is likely to result from the ongoing demographic transition at the same time as there is a further move away from the traditional domestic division of labour. Public policy-making that aims at increasing the supply of informal care...
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, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using …
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Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
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Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship … period of time. An implication of our novel finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be …
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