E Berman, J Bound… - 1994 - nber.org
This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in US manufacturing.
Between 1979 and 1989. employment of production workers in manufacturing dropped by
2.2 mil1ion or 15 percent while employment of non-production workers rose by 3 percent. ...
E Berman - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Israeli Ultra-Orthodox men study full-time in yeshiva until age 40 on average. Why
do fathers with families in poverty choose yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize
yeshiva attendance, yet attendance typically continues long after exemption. Fertility rates ...
E Berman… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001 - MIT Press
We examine the effect of air quality regulation on productivity in some of the most heavily
regulated manufacturing plants in the United States, the oil refineries of the Los Angeles
(South Coast) Air Basin. We use direct measures of local air pollution regulation to ...
E Berman… - Oxford review of economic policy, 2000 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract In this paper we consider the extent to which skill-biased technological changes are
transferring across international borders, thereby altering the skill structure of labour
markets. Evidence of increased relative demand for skilled workers is uncovered in the ...
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Griliches. 1994.“Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within US Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of …
E Berman - Quarterly Journal of Economics
E Berman - 2003 - nber.org
Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hama and
other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which
emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local ...
E Berman… - Journal of Public Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
Can rational models, once theological explanations are discredited, explain why certain
radical religious rebels are so successful in perpetrating suicide attacks? The fundamental
barrier to success turns out not to be recruiting suicide attackers; there is a rational basis ...
E Berman… - 2005 - nber.org
Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks
are just as likely to target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide
attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though rebels often kill coreligionists, they ...
E Berman, K Lang… - Labour Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We examine how language acquisition affects immigrant earnings growth for Soviet
immigrants to Israel. Using retrospective information on linguistic proficiency to control for
heterogeneous ability, we find that language complements high-skill occupations. ...
LR Iannaccone… - Public Choice, 2006 - Springer
Abstract This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism,
particularly those that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that
helps explain the persistent demand for religion, the different types of religions that ...
E Berman… - Journal of Public Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
The devolved nature of environmental regulation generates rich regulatory variation across
regions, industries and time. We exploit this variation, using direct measures of regulation
and plant data, to estimate employment effects of sharply increased air quality regulation ...
E Berman… - 2009 - dspace.cigilibrary.org
This paper investigates the skill-bias of technological change in developing countries using
a global sample of manufacturing industries. We report a striking increase in demand for
skilled workers in the 1980s in middle income countries (GDP/capita between $2000 and ...
E Berman - Journal of labor economics, 1997 - JSTOR
I estimate a function that matches vacant jobs and unemployed workers to produce new
hires. Israeli law requiring vacancy registration yields unique data quality. The literature
underestimates matching function coefficients because of a simultaneity bias, as the ...
E Berman - 2009 - books.google.com
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas,
Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and
charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing ...
E Berman, JN Shapiro… - 2008 - nber.org
We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature
and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a
government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and ...
E Berman… - … globalization, employment and …, 2004 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Book description: Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investments (FDIs) imply
and positive, negative or neutral impact in terms of employment growth, income equality and
poverty alleviation in developing countries? In the basis of its theoretical and empirical ...
E Berman - 2000 - nber.org
Factor-biased technological change implies divergent productivity growth across countries
with different amounts of skill and capital per worker. I estimate the extent of factor bias
within industries and countries using a 19-country panel of manufacturing data covering ...
E Berman… - 1997 - dss.ucsd.edu
Abstract Between 1970 and 1993 labor force participation of prime aged Israeli males
dropped from 94% to 86%, the lowest rate in the developed world. Expansion of military
service was the main cause in the 1970s but participation continued to fall in the 1980s ...
E Berman, R Somanathan, HW Tan… - 2005 - nber.org
ABSTRACT In cross-country tests of the skill-biased technological change hypothesis for the
1980s, India–a low income country–is unusual. It does not show evidence of skill upgrading
in manufacturing common to high and middle-income countries. In this period, India's ...
E Berman, R Iannaccone… - University of San Diego, …, 2006 - cenet6.nsd.edu.cn
Abstract The Catholic countries of Europe pose a puzzle for economic demography–their
fertility is the lowest in history despite low female labor force participation rates. Total fertility
rates now average 1.4 lifetime children per woman in Southern Europe. We apply a panel ...
E Berman, M Callen, JH Felter… - 2009 - nber.org
Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on
an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully
employed young men are less likely to participate in political violence, implying a positive ...
E Berman, JN Shapiro… - Journal of Political Economy, 2011 - iis-db.stanford.edu
At the start of 2006, General Chiarelli took command of the Army's day-to-day operations in
Iraq, and he was certain that no amount of killing or capturing could exhaust the ranks of
unemployed and angry Iraqis willing to join the insurgency.... Chiarelli became convinced ...
E Berman… - Suicide Bombing from an …, 2004 - isites.harvard.edu
G is the amount of government good provided, C ({Ri} is the amount of public good provided
by the” club” or religious organization given how much religious activity has been
contributed by all the players (and these together make up the amount of public goods A). ...
E Berman… - 2000 - nber.org
Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which
parents bear migration costs and children share returns. Migrants from a population with
heterogeneous intergenerational discount rates will be self-selected on intergenerational ...
B Eli, J Bound… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994 - 万方数据资源系统
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E Berman - Contemporary Jewry, 1999 - Springer
Abstract This paper offers three economic arguments for ending discriminatory religious law
in Israel. First, current subsidies have created massive poverty and welfare dependence in
the Israeli Haredi community. With men remaining in Yeshiva till an average age of forty ...
[CITATION] Rational martyrs: Evidence from data on suicide attacks
E Berman… - conference on suicide bombing, Center for Democracy, …, 2003
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Griliches. 1994.“Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within US Manufacturing: Evidence from the Annual Survey of …
B Eli - Quarterly Journal of Economics
E Berman… - Unpublished manuscrip t, 2004 - dss.ucsd.edu
Abstract High fertility and low market returns to schooling are predicted by a clubgood model
of religious sects. We investigate fertility and returns to education among families of
graduates of Muslim religious schools in Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Cote D'Ivoire, and ...
[CITATION] Skill biased technology transfer: Evidence on the factor bias of technological change in developing and developed countries
E Berman… - … Economic Association conference on Globalisation and …, 2000
[CITATION] Hard targets: evidence on the tactical use of suicide attacks
E Berman… - NBER Working Paper No, 2005
E Berman… - 2005 - nber.org
This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism, particularly those
that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the
persistent demand for religion, the different types of religious that naturally arise, and the ...
[CITATION] Fertility and Education in Radical Islamic Sects: Evidence from Asia and Africa
E Berman… - NBER working paper, 2003
[CITATION] Skilled-Biased Technology Transfer: Evidence of Factor Biased technical Change in Developing Countries
B Eli… - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Fall, 2000
[CITATION] SBTC Happens! Evidence on the Factor Bias of Technological Change in Developing and Developed Countries
E Berman… - 1999 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] Sect, Subsidy and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
E Berman, R Klinov… - 1999 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] Skill-biased technology transfer: Evidence of factor biased technological change in developing countries. mimeog
E Berman… - Boston, MA, Boston University (http://econ. bu. edu/eli), 2000
E Berman, M Callen, JH Felter… - Journal of Conflict …, 2011 - jcr.sagepub.com
Abstract Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is
based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully
employed young men are less likely to participate in political violence, implying a positive ...
[CITATION] Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
E Berman… - 2009 - Cambridge, Massachusetts London, …
[CITATION] Rational martyrs: international evidence on suicide attacks
E Berman… - UC San Diego mimeo,(October 2003), 2003
[CITATION] David. D. Laitin. 2008.―Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
E Berman - Journal of Public Economics
[CITATION] Radical, religious, and violent: the new economics of terrorism
Eli. Berman - MIT Press
E Berman… - 2008 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
UCL logo UCL Discovery. ...
K Rasler, E Berman, D Laitin, RL Euben… - Perspectives on …, 2007 - JSTOR
Book Review Editor or obvious reasons, in the past few years the topic of" suicide bombing,"
and" suicide terror" more gener ally, has attracted great public interest. The phenom enon
presents itself as a" security challenge," as a uniquely contentious form of collective action ...
[CITATION] Rational martyrs vs. hard targets: Theory and evidence on suicide attacks
E Berman… - University of Chicago Department of Economics, 2006
[CITATION] Bound John and Griliches
E Berman - 1994 - Zvi
E Berman - 1992 - getcited.org
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E Berman… - 1995 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
Book description: Economic modelling of innovation demands a great deal from economists
since it requires them to analyse the new and unknown. This volume brings together
contributions from a distinguished group of scholars who review a wide range of different ...
[CITATION] Evidence of Factor Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
E Berman… - Boston University, Boston, MA. Documento …, 2000
[CITATION] Skill-biased technology transfer
E Berman… - Evidence Factor Biased Technological Change in …, 2000
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Grichilis (1994)
E Berman - Changes in the Demand
[CITATION] Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro. 2009.“Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines,”
E Berman, M Callen… - NBER Working Paper
[CITATION] John Bound, Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence. Department of Economics, Boston University etc
E Berman… - revised November 1996 (mimeo)
[CITATION] John Bound, and Steve Machin,"
E Berman - Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change, 1996
[CITATION] John Bound (1995)''Implications of Skill Biased Technological Change: International Evidence,''
E Berman… - Mimeo
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Griliches." Changes in the Structure of Wages in the 1980s: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations,"
E Berman - Quarterly Journal ofEconomics, 1994
[CITATION] Religious Extremists and Terrorism: An Economist's View
LR Iannaccone… - 2005 - unpublished working paper
[CITATION] 2oo3. Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An EconomistNs View of Radical Religious Militias
E Berman - NBER Working Paper 1ooo4
[CITATION] Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the
E Berman… - 2008
[CITATION] Human Capital Investment and Nonparticipation: Evidence from a Sample with Infinite Horizons (Or: Mr. Jewish Father Stops Going to Work)
B Eli… - Jerusalem, The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic …, 1997
[CITATION] Symposium on Suicide Terrorism
E Berman… - Perspectives on Politics; forthcoming, 2007
[CITATION] John Bound, and Stephen Machin (1998),“Implications of skill-biased technological change”
E Berman - Quarterly Journal of Economics
[CITATION] Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro,“Constructive COIN: How Development Can Fight Radicals,”
E Berman… - Foreign Affairs, 2010
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Griliches, 1994, †œChanges in the Demand for Skilled Labor Within US Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual …
E Berman - Quarterly Journal of Economics
[CITATION] Religion, Terrorism, and Public Goods: Testing the Club Good Model
E Berman… - NBER Working Paper, 2005
[CITATION] John Bound, and Zvi Griliches. January 1993." Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within US Manufacturing Industries."
E Berman - NBER Working Paper
[CITATION] John Bound, and Stephen Machin. 1994. Implications of skill biased technological change: International evidence. Boston University
E Berman - October. Typescript
[CITATION] Clearing the Air: The Impact of Air Quality Regulations on Jobs
E Berman, LTM Bui… - 1997 - Economic Policy Institute
[CITATION] ohn Bound, and Zvi Griliches,“Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor Within US Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of …
E Berman - NBER Working Paper, _] uly, 1992
[CITATION] 'Rational Martyrs Versus Hard Targets: Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks
E Berman… - Suicide Bombing from an Interdisciplinary Perspective ( …, 2006
[CITATION] Rzakhanov, 2000,“Fertility, Migration and Altruism”
E Berman - NBER working paper
E Berman… - Perspectives on Politics, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
The three books under review reflect a radically altered agenda in social science, affected
by the attacks of September 11, 2001, in which international terrorism in general and suicide
missions in particular are “hot” topics. But because (sadly) new cases are recorded daily, ...
E Berman, R Somanathan… - 2004 - econdse.org
ABSTRACT Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased
technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country–did not, perhaps because
India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from ...
E Berman… - Boston University-Institute for Economic …, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
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E Berman - 1999 - sapir.tau.ac.il
ABSTRACT This paper offers three economic arguments for ending discriminatory religious
law in Israel. First, the current set of subsidies have created massive poverty and welfare
dependence in the Israeli Haredi community. With men remaining in Yeshiva till an ...
P Smith, A Bigsten, JM Poterba, N Missoulis… - Cambridge Univ Press
This section contains an index of current working papers by author-supplied keyword. The keyword
is followed by the name of the primary author. Long keywords have been truncated. A complete
bibliographic listing can be found by consulting the corresponding entry for the primary ...
M Aanesen, B Abrams, N Acocella, J Adams… - Public Choice, 2007 - Springer
Public Choice (2007) 133: 507–513 DOI 10.1007/s11127-007-9249-7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
... Published online: 23 October 2007 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2007 ...
Aanesen, Margrethe Abrams, Burton Acocella, Nicola Adams, James Afonso, Antonio ...
SC Abell, A Adamczyk, JB Adams… - Journal for the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Like every other peer-reviewed scholarly journal, reviewers are the lifeblood of the JSSR.
Without the donated time, energy, and intellectual contributions of hundreds of reviewers, an
editor's efforts, no matter how Herculean, would be nothing but vanity. Particularly in a ...
EA Allan, WC Apgar, MN Baily… - State of the Union: …, 1995 - books.google.com
Name Index Abbott, Carl, 218, 335 Abowd, JohnM, 11, 335 Acs, Gregory, 153n, 335 Adams,
John S., 327, 335 Aldrich, Howard, 258, 335 Allan, Emile Anderson, 90, 335 Ammon, Nancy,
331n, 345 Apgar, William C., 276, 335 Appelbaum, Richard P., 332n, 342 Appold. ...
EB Bardhan - econ.lse.ac.uk
The last twenty years have witnessed a dramatic change in the division of responsibility
between the state and the private sector for the delivery of public goods and services. As
evidence of weaknesses of in house government provision have accumulated [World ...
[CITATION] Burgess, Robin Camerer, Colin F. Campante, Filipe Campbell, John Y. Carroll, Christopher
H David, CN Avery, L Babcock, D Backus, G Baker… - MIT Press
A Shinrikyo… - guidinglight.com
In the modern age, after the decline of ideas such as the divine right of kings and with the
rise of nationalism, terrorism more often involved anarchism, nihilism and revolutionary
politics, but since 1980 there has been an increase in activity motivated by religion.[1]
E Berman - Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract I would like to thank Professor Adrian Guelke for his thoughtful response to Radical,
Religious and Violent. He somehow managed to be both accurate and generous. Professor
Guelke begins by reassuring an interdisciplinary audience that the application of ...
[CITATION] The employment impact of innovation: London[ua], Routledge, 2000
E Berman - Journal of economic literature, 2001
ELI BERMAN… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998 - clickpdf.com
2. Source: OECD [1992, 1993]. For specific countries, the 1979-1992 increases in
unemployment were: 5.0 percent to 10.1 percent (United Kingdom); 3.2 percent to 7.7
percent (Germany); 7.6 percent to 10.7 percent (Italy); 5.9 percent to 10.2 percent (France) ...
ELI BERMAN - igcc3.ucsd.edu
• A seminar (like this one) is a club, where participants benefit from their own effort “R” and
the average R of colleagues.• A good citizen comes prepared, asks questions, provides
good answers, all because she studies.• Lacking a way to subsidize R, the club would like ...
[CITATION] Three essays in labor economics
E Berman… - 1993 - UMI
ELI BERMAN… - econ.ucsd.edu
• Merari finds that there is no specific primary motivation-not economic depravity,-not
depressed or suicidal or mentally ill-consistent w/research on Bader-Meinhoff, Red Brigade,
ETA-not ignorant-generally not seeking revenge• Might be best thought of as well ...
JD BeDuhn, E Berman, SB Bevans, NY Maryknoll… - Cambridge Univ Press
Barton, Stephen C. and David Wilkinson, eds. Reading Genesis after Darwin. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009. 254 pp. $24.95 pb. Bean, Jonathan, ed. Race & Liberty in America: The
Essential Reader. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 329 pp. $24.95 pb. ...
M Casson, T Baig, B Balassa… - International trade in …, 2005 - books.google.com
Author Index Abernathy, Frederick H., 377 Abrego, L., 393 Adams, R., 138, 142, 144, 147n8
Ahn, Dukgeun, 5, 302n38 Aitkin, N., 140 Anderson, J., 140, 156 Ando, Mitsyuo, 4, 183,
183n8, 188n10, 189n12, 195n17, 199n20 Andriamananjara, S., 135 Areeda, Phillip E., ...
CF Bergsten, E Berman, C Betts… - Topics in empirical …, 2001 - books.google.com
Author Index Adler, FM, 99n2 Adler, Michael, 159 Aitken, B., 3, 95 Aizenman, Joshua, 164
Alam, Asad, 237t Andersson, T., 100n4, 111, 121 Arthuis, J., 141 Bachetta, Philippe, 165, 172
Bagwell, Kyle, 260 Balassa, Bela, 195, 196n2, 197 Baldwin, Robert E., 56n11, 59n16 ...
[CITATION] Highly-skilled labor and growth in Israeli industry
E Berman - 1990 - Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
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