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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question …: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...

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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in The Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....

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How do Parents allocate Time ?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

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

positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

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