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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379475

Social-family network and self-employment : evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China/ Junfu Zhang; Zhong Zhao

Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2011

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …

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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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Was erklärt hohe Arbeitseinkommen der Selbstständigen? : eine Mikroanalyse mit Daten des sozio-ökonomischen Panels

Hirschel, Dierk; Merz, Joachim - 2004

. Unterschieden wird zwischen individuellen (Humankapital, Arbeitszeit) und strukturellen (soziale Herkunft, Diskriminierung, Regionen …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002071839

The Higher Returns to Formal Education for Entrepreneurs versus Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2014

How valuable is formal education for entrepreneurs’ income relative to employees’? And if the income returns to formal education are different for entrepreneurs vis-a'-vis employees, what might be a plausible explanation? To explore these questions, we analyze a large representative US...

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Educational Qualification, Work Status and Entrepreneurship in Italy : An Exploratory Analysis

Sabatini, Fabio - 2007

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013

Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...

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Was erklärt hohe Arbeitseinkommen der Selbstständigen? : eine Mikroanalyse mit Daten des sozio-ökonomischen Panels

Hirschel, Dierk; Merz, Joachim - 2004

. Unterschieden wird zwischen individuellen (Humankapital, Arbeitszeit) und strukturellen (soziale Herkunft, Diskriminierung, Regionen … Reichtum ; Selbständige ; Soziale Herkunft ; Diskriminierung ; Humankapital ; Leistung ; Sozio-ökonomisches Panel ; Theorie der …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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