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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9275 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166)
J31
9274 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Murat Güray Kirdar
Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.)
J18, J31, I21, I28
9273 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland
This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8)
L53, O12
9267 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our ...
(publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080)
D04, G21, G28, H32, H81, J23, L53
9265 Xiaodong Gong
Jiti Gao
Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge ...
(published in: Australia & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2018, 60 (3), 374- 393)
C13, C14, C29, I13
9263 Derya Findik
Aysit Tansel
Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ...
(published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126. )
D22, D24, O30, O47
9262 Derya Findik
Aysit Tansel
Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the ...
(published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8)
L21, L22, L23, L25
9261 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Solomiya Shpak
Volodymyr Vakhitov
Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large ...
(published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35)
D24, G34, L33, P31
9260 Chris Rohlfs
Ryan Sullivan
Thomas J. Kniesner
Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.)
H56, J17, N42, D24, J24, L11
9257 Raul Ramos
Esteban Sanromá
Hipólito Simón
An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain
This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (3), 449-469)
J31, J22, J41, R23
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