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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9278 Seamus McGuinness
Luis Ortiz-Gervasi
Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts
Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining the accurate ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278)
J20, J24, J50
9277 Michael R. Strain
Douglas A. Webber
High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation
Using within-high-school variation and controlling for a measure of cognitive ability, this paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (49), 5040-5049)
J16, J31
9276 Andrew Eyles
Stephen Machin
The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, 1107-46 )
I20, I21, I28
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
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