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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety....

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to the publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology 2012, 33(2), 410-424. 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...

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the publication in Small Business Economics (2013), 40(3), 651-670. 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....

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The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees

Hessels, Jolanda; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...

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The Stature of the Self-employed and its Premium

Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Hessels, Jolanda; Zwan, Peter … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics and Human Biology' (forthcoming). Taller individuals typically have occupations with higher social status and higher earnings than shorter individuals. Further, entrepreneurship is associated with high social status in numerous...

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Early childhood development through an integrated program : evidence from the Philippines

Behrman, Jere R. (contributor) - 2006

-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and …, household, and child level and unobserved fixed characteristics, with differential impacts by age of children and duration of …

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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005

"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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