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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …

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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...

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Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Pfeifer, Christian - 2021

This research note uses two German data sets - the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires - to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into...

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Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

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Performance pay, risk attitudes and job satisfaction

Cornelißen, Thomas; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2008

We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay … confirm testable implications drawn from our sorting model. First, prior to controlling for earnings, workers in performance …. While these findings support the sorting model, they would not be suggested by the classic agency model. …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Attitudes: A Revealed Preference Approach

Leuermann, Andrea; Necker, Sarah - 2011

This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's...

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