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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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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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The Golden Age of Nobel Economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills relevant for … effect on non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills. This is surprising since previous evaluations found zero or negative effects … non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills are best developed at an early age. …
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …
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Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Skill Matching
Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economica', 2008, 75(300), pages 782-796.<P> Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials...</p>
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