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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Parker, Simon; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009

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

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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...

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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040491

The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance

van Praag, Mirjam; de Wit, Gerrit; Bosma, Niels - 2003

This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …

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