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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
between firms and occupations over the course of their career. Workers search for suitable wage and non-pecuniary match values … at firms across occupations given their heterogeneous skill endowments and preferences for employment in each occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835766
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Do balanced skills help nascent entrepreneurs to make progress in the venture creation process?
Stuetzer, Michael; Goethner, Maximilian; Cantner, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We analyze longitudinal data on innovative start-up projects and apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate the effect of nascent entrepreneurs’ balanced skills on their progress in the venture creation process. Our results suggest that those nascent entrepreneurs who exhibit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258806
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Where do entrepreneurial skills come from?
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Davidsson, Per; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Applying Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory we investigate the formation of entrepreneurial skills in two datasets on innovative new firms. Our results suggest that traditional human capital indicators individually have little or no influence on entrepreneurial skills. However, consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260872
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260930
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Regional characteristics, opportunity perception and entrepreneurial activities
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper seeks to better understand the link between regional characteristics and individual entrepreneurship. We combine individual-level GEM data for Western Germany with regional-level data, using multi-level analysis to test our hypotheses. We find no direct link between regional knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111507
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Nascent entrepreneurship and the developing individual: Early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and venture creation success during the career
Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
What predicts a person's venture creation success over the course of the career, such as making progress in the venture creation process and multiple successful venture creations? Applying a life span approach of human development, this study examined the effect of early entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151553
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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
between firms and occupations over the course of their career. Workers search for suitable wage and non-pecuniary match values … at firms across occupations given their heterogeneous skill endowments and preferences for employment in each occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789291
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Estimation of an Occupational Choice Model when Occupations are Misclassified
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines occupational choices using a discrete choice model that accounts for the fact that self-reported occupation data is measured with error. Despite evidence from validation studies which suggests that there is a substantial amount of measurement error in self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619639
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Empirical Evidence on Occupation and Industry Specific Human Capital
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
allowed to vary across occupations, in contrast to existing research which has constrained the parameters of the wage equation … wages after five years of occupation specific experience but do not realize wage gains from industry specific experience. In … contrast, human capital is primarily industry specific in other occupations such as managerial employment where workers realize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623413
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A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search
Sullivan, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
between firms and occupations over the course of their career. Workers search for suitable wage and non-pecuniary match values … at firms across occupations given their heterogeneous skill endowments and preferences for employment in each occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626893