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Ontwikkelingen in de arbeidseconomie
Hartog, Joop - In: Economisch statistische berichten : ESB 74 (1989) 25, pp. 83-91
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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380730
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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255653
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A successful businessman is not a gambler. Risk attitude and business performance among small enterprises in Nigeria
Willebrands, Daan; Lammers, Judith; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 342-354
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on business performance among small enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria. We find that there is no robust support for a positive effect of willingness to take risk through compensation for risk taking. Perception of risk does have a...
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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838628
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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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Are Starting Wages Reduced by an Insurance Premium for Preventing Wage Decline? Testing the Prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)
Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro - 2015
are unable to assess the ability of a labour market entrant, they would offer a wage equal to expected productivity of the … worker's category and adjust it with unfolding information on true individual productivity. Workers are willing to accept a … reduction in starting wage to prevent a reduction in their wage when their productivity is revealed to be below the expected …
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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands
Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of...
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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