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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256311
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921781
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257420
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504888
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255961
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Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers
Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256288
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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success
Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Journal of Business Venturing', 2014, 29(5), pages 612-632.<P> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256412
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How Large are Search Frictions?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and the United States we find strong evidencefor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256697
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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257204
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On-the-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257478