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1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …
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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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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …
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the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of the … possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus shape the …
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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 … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …
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considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …
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entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education. …
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