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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...
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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 - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
See also the publication in <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....</p></i>
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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners
Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...
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The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees
Hessels, Jolanda; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...
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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
="http://press.uchicago.edu/journals/jole/forthcoming.html?journal=jole">'Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, forthcoming.<P> Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of … own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we … adoptive parents, but also for their biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large …
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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, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Parker, Simon; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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