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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for …-birth factors (biological parents). The sum of these two effects for adopted children is almost identical to the intergenerational … transmission of entrepreneurship for own-birth children. We explore several candidate explanations for this important post …

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660798">'The Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent...</a>

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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification

Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the …

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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality - Evidence from Targeted Incentives to retire early

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands. Among the older workers we focus on, a group of civil servants became eligible for retirement...

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On Distributions of Ratios

Broda, Simon A.; Kan, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

A large number of exact inferential procedures in statistics and econometrics involve the sampling distribution of ratios of random variables. If the denominator variable is positive, then tail probabilities of the ratio can be expressed as those of a suitably defined difference of random...

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Bayesian Analysis of Instrumental Variable Models: Acceptance-Rejection within Direct Monte Carlo

Zellner, Arnold; Ando, Tomohiro; Basturk, Nalan; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Econometric Reviews. Vol. 33(1-4), 3-35. We discuss Bayesian inferential procedures within the family of instrumental variables regression models and focus on two issues: existence conditions for posterior moments of the parameters of interest...

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