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Grogan, Louise Anne - 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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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001

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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 22 OECD countries, 1976 - 2000

Wennekers, A. R.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2004

This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 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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Comparative advantage, relative wages, and the accumulation of human capital

Teulings, Coen N. - 2002

I apply Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage to a theory of factor substitutability in a model with a continuum of worker and job types. Highly skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The model satisfies the distance-dependent elasticity of substitution (DIDES)...

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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated …

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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

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 ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

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Friendship relations in the school class and adult economic attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - 2005

differential social standing in adolescence predicts large and persistent earnings disparities over the entire life course. The … share of the earnings inequalities is mediated by differential post-secondary human and social capital investment. From a …

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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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