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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256522
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper has resulted in a publication in <I>Labour Economics</I> (2013), 23, 50-56.<P> The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs...</p></i>
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257420
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
make observed wages moredependent on these factors. The extent to which human capital factors influence wages can be viewed …
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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin highschools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five … agreeableness), emotional stability (the obverse of neuroticism),and openness to experience; among women, with conscientiousness and … genderdifferences in earnings: men were considerably more antagonistic (non-agreeable) than women,on average, and men alone were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257632
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629614001180">'Journal of Health Economics'</A> 2015, 39, 17-30.<P> This is the first study to analyze effects of in utero exposure to the severe Dutch Hunger Winter famine (1944/45) on labor market outcomes and hospitalization. This famine is clearly demarcated...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256631
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The Effect of Skill Level on the Timing of Childbearing and Number of Children
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have … less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257288
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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257185
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256430