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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255521
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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137009
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Survey Non-response and Unemployment Duration
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records of the same workers. The latter provide information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450729
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Survey Non-response and Unemployment Duration
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records of the same workers. The latter provide information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257499
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The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in … aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to increases in labor market frictions. This continued labor market … that the U.S. labor market is unlikely to be subject to high levels of structural long-term unemployment after aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255576
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256235
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Capital Markets Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Analysis
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
integrated economy. Second, we study theeffects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the intragenerational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261919
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Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality and Growth
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
date along theequilibrium path. Second, we study the impact of such technogical progress on growth and relate these results … theparameters of the model. Simulation results include exact Gini coefficients and tax rate on labor determinedendogenously through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261934
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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance
Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - Tinbergen Institute - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209500
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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins
Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136992