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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256457
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'International Small Business Journal' (2013). Volume 31, issue 1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered...</p>
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272603
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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Competition and Educational Quality: Evidence from The Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond H.J.M.; Jong, Matthijs de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Empirica</I>, 40, 607-34. Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th...</i>
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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vuuren, Aico van; Berkhout, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation but start job search earlier, our model is non...
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School Choice and Competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...
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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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