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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; 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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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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The returns to English-language skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004

In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...

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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004

In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...

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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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