Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 141
Cover Image
The "entrepreneurial boss" effect on employees' future entrepreneurship choices : a role model story?
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016
entrepreneurs themselves? Using Danish register data of newly founded firms and their entrepreneurs and employees between 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518066
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485517
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
Cover Image
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388854
Cover Image
IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0
Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510702
Cover Image
Upside-down down-under: cold temperatures reduce learning in Australia
Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel; Mendolia, Silvia; … - 2021
Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of crucial economic importance. Recently, studies have established that high temperatures negatively impact cognition and educational outcomes in several countries around the world. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491979
Cover Image
Workplace incentives and organizational learning
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2020
This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production function, worker's effort choice changes over time as information is disclosed and processed. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317033
Cover Image
Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997660
Cover Image
Does work-based learning facilitate the school to work transition? : evidence from an Italian reform
Bernardi, Martino; Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2024
In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive feature of this reform was that the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075448
Cover Image
Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
Hurst and Lusardi (2004) recently challenged the long-standing belief that liquidity constraints are important causal determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and assets is actually unchanging as assets increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344611