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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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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the sixyears since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin highschools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five … genderdifferences in earnings: men were considerably more antagonistic (non-agreeable) than women,on average, and men alone were … for cognitive ability. Among men, substantial earnings advantages were associatedwith antagonism (the obverse of …

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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are …

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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … men and women in returns tolabor market characteristics rather than to differences in the characteristics.This is true … full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample …

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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...

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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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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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