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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259625
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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338727
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Economic and market predictors of insolvencies in the property-liability insurance industry
Han, Li-ming - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 62 (1995) 2, pp. 309-327
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001186266
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Identification of "wasteful commuting" using search theory
Ommeren, Jos van; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2005
In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346473
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458904
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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509118
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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?
Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003
We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises the self-employed household s expected return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404319
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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Microeconomic and maceoeconomic determinants of the profitability of the insurance sector in Macedonia
Drvoshanova-Eliskovska, Tanja - In: Economics and business review 1 (2015) 3, pp. 38-57
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382484