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administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
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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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entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …
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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the …
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Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
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