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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513241
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Parker, Simon; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137017
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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
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256522
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Parker, Simon; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257189
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501
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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This discussion paper has resulted in ch. 4 of <A href="http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=edksC0nRPZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=allesintitel:+%22Labor+Market+Institutions+and+Public+Regulation%22&ots=-umxBkjdnT&sig=oeFDTjhnSeo-w-4nuTjTJpuaUr8#v=onepage&q=&f=false">'Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation'</A>, pp. 123-61, (Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.)), 2004, MIT Press, 228 p.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136877
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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256508
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256702
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The Stature of the Self-employed and its Premium
Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Hessels, Jolanda; Zwan, Peter … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257122
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255840