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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

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Roy; Wit, Gerrit de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …

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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 … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to the publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology 2012, 33(2), 410-424. In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

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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 … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation

Stel, André van; Storey, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...

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