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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups
Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025480
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Entrepreneurship, human capital, and labor demand : a story of signaling and matching
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Nielsen, Kristian; Noseleit, Florian; … - 2015
Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017
This paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how … entrepreneurship may contribute to decreasing the severe child labour problem in Tanzania, but resolving the problem of low school …
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Risk, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Accumulation
Iyigun, Murat; Owen, Ann L. - 2006
human capital is relatively more abundant in richer economies. Because the return to entrepreneurship is risky, individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072051
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The benefits of having an entrepreneur-mother : influence of mother's entrepreneurial status on human capital formation among children
Li, Wenchao; Tong, Di - In: Journal of business venturing 38 (2023) 6, pp. 1-20
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship : theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. -- immigration …
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital : positive contributions to cognitive and non-cognitive skills justify public support of youth sports
Leeds, Michael A. - 2015
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if participating in sports is an investment good as well as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430225
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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries
Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015
This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281876
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
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