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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

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.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...

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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...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...

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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur

Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...

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The Stature of the Self-employed and its Premium

Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Hessels, Jolanda; Zwan, Peter … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

typically have occupations with higher social status and higher earnings than shorter individuals. Further, entrepreneurship is … height premium in earnings exists for not only paid employees, as indicated by prior studies, but also for self …-employed individuals. An additional 1 cm in height is associated with a 0.44% increase in hourly earnings for paid employees, and a 0 …

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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Parker, Simon; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

required for their jobs earn wage rewards. These departures from the Mincer human capital earnings function can be explained by …

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

differential social standing in adolescence predicts large and persistent earnings disparities over the entire life course. The … share of the earnings inequalities is mediated by differential post-secondary human and social capital investment. From a …

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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper was published in the Economics of Education Review (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523. The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and...

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