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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan
Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
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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
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
employment account for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions as determined by fixed individual characteristics. General …
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Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
Cockx, Bart; Bardoulat, Isabelle - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non …
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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...
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Which Industries are shifting the Beveridge Curve?
Barnichon, Regis; Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has … openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in line with the Beveridge curve. We decompose the recent deviation from …
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How Large are Search Frictions?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and the United States we find strong evidencefor a...
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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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On-the-Job Search and City Structure
Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We investigate an equilibrium search model in which the search frictions are increasing with the distance to the central business district allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous (monopsony) wage formation and land allocation. We find that there are many different possible outcomes with...
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...
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