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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
See also the publication in <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255751
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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe
Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255907
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Self-Employment around Retirement Age
Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256137
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The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel
Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Koolman, Xander - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe. Classification-JEL: D30, D31, I10, I12. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209511
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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136919
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867504
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Self-Employment around Retirement Age
Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838648
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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe
Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281885
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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions
Burger, Martijn J.; Knaap, Bert van der; Wall, Ronald S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are competing with each other over which types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256290
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The Magnitude and Distance Decay of Trade in Goods and Services: New Evidence for European Countries
Burger, Martijn J.; Thissen, Mark; Oort, Frank G. van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Using a newly assembled, consistent and disaggregated dataset (12 goods and 7 services) on internal and bilateral trade for 25 European countries, we analyse the difference between trade in goods and services. The measurement of both trade in goods and trade in services is improved over earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256784