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Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or junior medical specialist), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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