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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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A simple model of self-assessments

Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Swank, Otto H. - 2006

We develop a simple model that describes individuals’ self-assessments oftheir abilities. We assume that individuals learn about their abilities from appraisalsof others and experience. Our model predicts that if communicationis imperfect, then (i) appraisals of others tend to be too positive,...

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The compensating income variation of social capital

Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Praag, … - 2007

There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the individual’s social network, the extent of their...

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Friendship relations in the school class and adult economic attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - 2005

We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of highschool on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locateeach student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant,a broker or a...

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Strong ties in a small world

Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...

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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011

Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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Tailored feedback and worker green behavior : field evidence from bus drivers

Soetevent, Adriaan; Romensen, Gert-Jan - 2017

drivers, we investigate the potential of targeted peer-comparison feedback and on-the-road coaching. Drivers receive … drivers with in person coaching moments on the bus. Based on 800,000 trip-level observations, we find that the targeted peer …-comparison treatments do not improve driving. On-the-road coaching significantly improves driving on multiple dimensions but only …

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Learning in a local interaction hawk-dove game: do not learn us your neighbours do

Kamphorst, Jurjen; Laan, Gerard van der - 2006

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Consistent estimation of structural parameters in regression models with adaptive learning

Christopeit, Norbert; Massmann, Michael - 2010

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