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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis
Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024
generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with routine skills, known as job polarization. This study finds that the … virtually irrelevant job characteristic in occupations, namely, the ability to work from home, and not the manual, routine, or … type of jobs gained. Further evidence of a persistent change in the demand for (digital) skills is found in results on job …
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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in … 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their … industry of employment. A bad experience with, for instance, pay, work pressure, or job duties makes a change in industry more …
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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking
Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556227
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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
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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Firm formation with complementarities : the role of the entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - 2011
We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377467
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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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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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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
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Are education subsidies an efficient redistributive device?
Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...
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Entrepreneurship selection and performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
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