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Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …

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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

outcomes in secondary education, but that it is negative and small. This effect is larger for small and medium sized schools …

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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

model using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001 …

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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 …

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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 conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy

Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …

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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping

Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00103">'Review of Economics and Statistics'</A>, 2010, 93(3), 982-994.<P> We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the...</p></a>

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