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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …

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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 … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007 - This version: November 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …

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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance

Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023

What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...

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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 education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

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Human capital and retirement

Alders, Peter - 1999

This paper investigates the relation between human capital andretirement when the age of retirement is endogenous. This relation isexamined in a life-cycle earnings model. An employee works full timeuntil retirement. The worker accumulates human capital by training-on-the-job and by...

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Illegal entrepreneurship experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal …

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