This paper explores the issues and pitfalls encountered when attempting to test empirically the hypothesis that physician, hospital, or any other input supply level induces increasing demand for health services in the strict sense of demand shift and, through that, increased demand for the input...

Little research seems to have addressed the testing of the dual labor market model for nondeveloping economies outside the U.S. and the U.K. This paper examines the hypothesis for Israel. Utilizing individual data drawn from the Israel labor mobility survey and assigning workers to primary and...

This paper examines the efficacy (in terms of labor market outcomes) of vocational school education in Israel as compared with that of academic schools. Using data from the 1983 population census, the study shows vocational schooling, which accounts for half of secondary school enrollment in...

In an earlier paper based on Israeli census data, the authors showed that vocational school completers achieved higher earnings than their counter-parts who attended academic secondary schools, but only if they worked in occupations related to the vocational course of study pursued. These...