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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257490
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Genome-wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship
Koellinger, Philipp; Groenen, Patrick; Thurik, Roy; van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837513
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838535
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325824
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is It U-Shaped?
Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André; Carree, Martin; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 6 (2010) 3, pp. 167-237
independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development. We argue that the … reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two 'revolutions'. If we distinguish between solo self …-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990894
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196996
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Genome-Wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship
van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M. - 2011
We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133990
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256507
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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257307
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and the US
Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European countries and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257576