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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economistsfor more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship intwo distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economicsand b) as it develops in the transitional context. In...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economists for more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship in two distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economics and b) as it develops in the transitional context....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209447

Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …

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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Estimating the Effects of Recent Disability Reforms in The Netherlands

Sonsbeek, Jan-Maarten van; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

In the 1980s and 1990s, disability benefit rates in the Netherlands were among the highest in the world. However, since … the beginning of this century the number of disability cases has dropped remarkably due to some very successful policy … reforms. An administrative dataset of Dutch disability benefit recipients from 1999 until 2010 has been used for analyzing the …

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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137003

Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for...

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about attaining a higher living standard and expected low job...

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Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization

Bakanova, Marina; Souza, Lúcio Vinhas de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...

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