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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, … - 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 - 2008

ability has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial incomes than on wages. Entrepreneurs and employees benefit from different … sets of specific abilities: Language and clerical abilities have a stronger impact on wages, whereas mathematical, social …

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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000

deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …

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Compensation of on-call and fixed-term employment : the role of uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005

-ante unable to fully observe a worker's ability and results in lower wages. Using a combination of propensity score and …

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Dual track or academic route for auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002

make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

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Commuting, children and the gender wage gap

Borghorst, Malte; Mulalic, Ismir; Ommeren, Jos van - 2021

3-4% of their wages. …

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Nash bargaining and the wage consequences of educational mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - 2012

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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020

We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …

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The effect of immigration on native earnings

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data

Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014

density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …

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