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The more business owners the merrier? : the role of tertiary education
Praag, Mirjam van; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2011
attempt to establish whether there is such an optimal level, while investigating the role of tertiary education. Two findings … participation rates in tertiary education. Thus, the optimal business ownership rate tends to decrease with tertiary education …
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Illegal entrepreneurship experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal …
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
entrepreneurs when optimizing theprofitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal control over …How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US …
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Controlin an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment ofand accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360633
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skillprofiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possiblelinkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversionand balanced skills on...
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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378332
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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016
industries founded by individuals coming from employment between 1992 and 2007. We acknowledge that initial hiring decisions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456733
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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016
industries founded by individuals coming from employment between 1992 and 2007. We acknowledge that initial hiring decisions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458941
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Entrepreneurship and role models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2010
The decision to become an entrepreneur is in essence an individual decision. But even when the endowments of inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed explanations for this regional variation are numerous: market...
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