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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female …

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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015

gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age …

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period 2000-2008, considering 5 manufacturing and services industries that differ in the … level of technological intensity. Industries in the Netherlands are characterized by a larger average proportion of high … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2023

1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that …

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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Roads leading to self-employment : comparing transgenerational entrepreneurs and self-made start-ups

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start

Parker, Simon C. (contributor); … - 2006

entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …

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"Employability-miles" and worker employability awareness

Gerards, Ruud; Grip, Andries de; Witlox, Maaike - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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