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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; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282326
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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …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 identify the separate effects of pre- and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287617
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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; van Praag, Mirjam - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326215
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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …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 identify the separate effects of pre- and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326312
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How do Entrepreneurial Bosses influence their Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices?
Rocha, Vera; van Praag, Mirjam - 2016
employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … identification strategy based on comparisons of same-gender matches of bosses and employees, using rich register data for Denmark. We … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586725
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive effect could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326395
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326407
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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282324
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive effect could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287629