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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010

an instrumental variables approachand a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European countries and the … the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …

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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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