A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three keyfactors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and opensourcelicence type...

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational choice, although there are compellingreasons to posit that spatial location influences economic behavior. Using Bayesiansemiparametric methodologies and geoadditive techniques,...

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more...

Das Papier präsentiert neue Schätzungen von Matchingfunktionen mit Hilfe von Niveau- und Ratengrössen mit nach Berufen dissaggregierten Daten für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt für die Jahre 1983 bis 2004...

This paper develops a theoretical framework of professional sports leagueswhich captures the bargaining process of sporting labour market negotiations. A transfer market, which does not have a counterpart in other labour markets butit is an implicit and ubiquitous component of the market for...

This paper investigates the determinants of European financial analysts' forecasts differential accuracy.

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the genderwage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown thatin three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insuranceindustry) the unexplained and...

For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial...

This paper investigates the traits of the self-employed entrepreneurs in urbanChina, an economy rife with informational and institutional imperfections, underdevelopedfinancial markets, but a growing and important non-state sector. The selfemployedmake on average 20% more than non-entrepreneurs,...