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The health returns to education : what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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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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On-the-job search and sorting

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005

This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...

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Matching and winning? : the impact of upper and middle managers on team performance

Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015 - This version: October 2015

manager impact. Our results suggest assortative matching as managerial quality is positively correlated across organizational …

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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2009

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter; Wolfhoff, Ronald P. - 2006

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2006

matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination …

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Search, screening and sorting

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021

We investigate the e↵ect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sucient conditions for sorting...

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International assortative matchingin the European labor market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …

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