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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …
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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, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated...
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Altruism to Strangers for our Own Sake: Domestic Effects from Immigration
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper seeks to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of...
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...
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