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The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
Gee, Laura Katherine - 2016
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...
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Tracking the Herd with a Shotgun — Why Do Peers Influence College Major Selection?
Insler, Michael; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Smith, Katherine - 2021
reassignments of certain student groups into new peer groups, we also explore the reasons why herding occurs. The preponderance of … evidence suggests that social learning, as opposed to network externalities, is the key driver for herding behavior. …
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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2004
differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity …
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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008
The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268575
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Does private tutoring payoff?
Gurun, Ayfer; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2008
We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that …
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Hazard analysis of unemployment duration by gender in a developing country: The case of Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2010
duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269772
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Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2004
unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of …
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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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The effects of social security taxes and minimum wages on employment: Evidence from Turkey
Papps, Kerry L. - 2011
paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low …
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The formal/informal employment earnings gap: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
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