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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...

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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn ,Bart H.H. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11European countries and Japan....

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Employment and Education Policy for YoungPeople in the EU: What Can New Member StatesLearn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

capitalendowment via a deep reform of education and training systems... …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …

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Patience Cycles

Barnett, Richard; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Puhakka, Mikko - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

betterin school, and hence, get more education but scrimp on investing in their own progeny’s patience.This dynamic can …

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East Germany´s Wage Gap : A non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>

East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap implied by the contractual wagesspecified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wagegap in terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of...

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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...

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Testing a Conditional Form of Exogeneity

White, Halbert; Chalak, Karim - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2010

We give two new approaches to testing a conditional form of exogeneity. This conditionensures unconfoundedness and identication of eects of interest in structural systems. Asthese approaches do not rely on the absence of causal eects of treatment under the null,they complement earlier methods of...

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A Caseworker Like Me : Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …

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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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