EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE

By J. van der Sluis, M. van Praag, Wim P. M. Vijverberg. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions (2018, neutral): “On the one hand, people with higher education are more likely to have better opportunities for wage-employment, which can lower their incentive to start their own ventures (Van Der Sluis et al. 2008).”
Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit? (2016, positive): “General human capital acquired during education can be applied to other contexts (Becker, 1975); so, for example, education is a key driver of entrepreneurial performance (Millán et al., 2014; Unger et al., 2011; Van der Sluis et al., 2001).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance (2015, background): “Pointing to Lazear’s (2004) suggestion that entrepreneurs are “Jacks of all trades”, who need a broad mixture of skills to be successful, Van der Sluis et al. (2008) argue that besides level of education, the choice of school courses or training programs could be an important determinant of…”
Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: implications for university entrepreneurship policy (2012, neutral): “…(Ashenfelter and Krueger, 1994; Card, 2001); the return to education is higher in self employment than in wage work in the U.S. but not necessarily in Europe (Van der Sluis et al., 2008); and that education relates positively to the economic performance of start-ups (e.g. Gimeno et al., 1997).”
National Rates of Opportunity Entrepreneurship Activity: Insights from Institutional Anomie Theory (2014, background): “For example, beyond the direct effects (Brouwer, 2002) suggested by Weber’s (1930) “protestant ethic” hypothesis, the logic of IATOE would suggest that religion (e.”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, neutral): “Studies often measure a positive relationship between education and business ownership, but the evidence does not yield very strong relationships (e.g., van der Sluis et al., 2008).”
The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, neutral): “…obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance, irrespective of whether earnings, survival, employment or sales growth have been used as the measure of the entrepreneur’s performance (cf. the overview in Van der Sluis et al., 2008).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, neutral): “Individuals with higher educational levels: (i) have better job opportunities in the wage sector (Van der Sluis et al., 2008; Brown et al., 2011a); (ii) are, on average, more able to identify selfemployment opportunities; and (iii) might have greater managerial ability, a critical precondition to…”