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Persistence of innovation : stylised facts and panel data evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2005
innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225294
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Persistence of Innovation : Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2008
innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727298
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324997
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?
Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262328
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282326
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid! : how self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522492
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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012
Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016
We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416388
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
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Dual track or academic route for auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327827
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid! : how self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720711