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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions : an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program
Oosterbeek, Hessel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...
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Do management practices matter in further education?
McNally, Sandra; Schmidt, Luis; Valero, Anna - 2022
Further Education colleges are a key way in which 16-19 year olds acquire skills in the UK (much like US Community Colleges), especially those from low income backgrounds. Yet, little is known about what could improve performance in these institutions. We design and conduct the world's first...
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Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes
Seah, Kelvin; Pan, Jessica; Poh Lin Tan - 2020
We explore whether the choice of broad versus specialized university curricula affects subsequent labor market outcomes, as measured by earnings, full-time permanent employment, and unemployment six months after university graduation. We exploit a unique episode in the history of the National...
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Biases in student evaluations of teaching: an American case study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non-deterministic and qualitative nature of the SETs...
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
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Who gains from active learning in higher education?
Bosio, Giulio; Origo, Federica - 2019
The aim of this paper is to study whether and how teaching style (i.e., traditional vs active mode) affects academic performance of young individuals in tertiary education. We focus on entrepreneurship education as an ideal subject for experimenting alternative teaching methods. Identification...
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Dual track or academic route for auditors : does it matter?
Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers
Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....
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