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To study or to work? Education and labour market participation of young people in Poland
Pastore, Francesco - 2005
This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267412
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To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703667
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The Impact of Education on the Behaviour of Labor Supply in Cameroon: an Analysis using the Nested Multinomial Logit Model
Ndjobo, Nga; Marie, Patrick; Abessolo, Yves André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article renders an analysis of the impact of education on labour supply behaviour, particularly in terms of … individuals who constitute the labour supply being faced with four alternatives (domestic activities, the informal, the public and … education is at most equivalent to theirs. Therefore, signals sent by job-seekers to employers, requesting access demand to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108512
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Measuring the Incidence of Over- and Undereducation
Verhaest, Dieter; Omey, Eddy - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 40 (2006) 5, pp. 783-803
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009396384
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325694
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Student Work, Educational Achievement, and Later Employment: A Dynamic Approach
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2017
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as a chain of discrete choices. To tackle their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786977
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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Student work, educational achievement, and later employment : a dynamic approach
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2017
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes as a chain of discrete choices. To tackle their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758789
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approach
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513229
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'International Small Business Journal' (2013). Volume 31, issue 1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257474