August 2006

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

CIHAN BILGINSOY

 

University of Utah

Department of Economics

1645 E. Central Campus Drive, Room 308

Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9300

Phone: (801) 581-7691

Fax: (801) 585-5649

bilginsoy@economics.utah.edu

 

EDUCATION:

 

  Ph.D. 1986    Economics                    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

  M.A.  1979    Economics                    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

  B.S.   1976    Economics/Statistics     Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Articles Published in Peer-reviewed Journals:

 

Forthcoming     Cihan Bilginsoy, “Delivering Skills: Apprenticeship Program Sponsorship and

Transition from Training,” Industrial Relations.

 

2006             Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Still a Wedge in the Door: Women Training for the Construction Trades in the U.S.International Journal of Manpower, July, Vol. 27, No.4, pp. 321-341.

 

   2005             Robert W. Glover and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Registered Apprenticeship Training

in the U.S. Construction Industry,” Education + Training , Vol. 47, No. 4/5, pp. 337-349.

 

   2005             Cihan Bilginsoy, “How Unions Affect Minority Representation in Building

Trades Apprenticeship Programs,” Journal of Labor Research, Summer, Vol.26, No. 3, pp. 453-463.

 

   2005              Cihan Bilginsoy, Norman Waitzman, Claire O. Leonard and Sharon L. Ernst,

“Living with Phenylketonuria: Perspectives of Patients and Their Families,” Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, January, Vol. 28, pp. 639-649.

 

   2003             Cihan Bilginsoy, “The Hazards of Training: Attrition and Retention in

                        Construction Industry Apprenticeship Programs,” Industrial and Labor

                        Relations Review, October, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 54-67.

 

2002             Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Unions and Women’s Training for the Skilled Trades in the United States,” The Review of Black Political Economy, Spring, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 97-122.

 

2000                          Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Do Unions Help or Hinder Women in Training? Apprenticeship Programs in the United States,” Industrial Relations, October, Vol.39, No.4, pp. 600-624.

 

2000             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Bid Dispersion, Competition, and Wage Regulation: Some Field Evidence from Public Contract Bidding in British Columbia,” Applied Economics, May, Vol.32, No.6, pp. 717-722.

 

2000                          Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Type of Work Matters: Women’s Labor

Force Participation and the Child Sex Ratio in Turkey,” World Development, May, Vol.28, No.5, pp. 861-878.

 

   2000             Cihan Bilginsoy and Peter Philips, “Prevailing Wage Laws and School Construction Costs: Evidence from British Columbia,” Journal of Education Finance, Winter, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 415-431.

 

1999                          Cihan Bilginsoy, “Labor Market Regulation and the Winner’s Curse,” Economic Inquiry, July, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 387-400.

 

1997             Cihan Bilginsoy, “A Macroeconomic Analysis of Agricultural Terms of Trade in Turkey: 1952-90,” The Journal of Development Studies, August, Vol.33, No.6,

 pp. 57-79.

 

1997             Shahrukh R. Khan, Cihan Bilginsoy and Shahid Alam, “Dynamic Efficiencies of Industrialization and Growth: An Aggregative Approach,” Economia Internazionale, February, Vol.50, No.1, pp. 85-98,   

 

1994             Shahrukh R. Khan and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Industry Externalities Revisited,” Kyklos, Vol.74, Fasc.1, pp. 67-80.

 

1994             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Distributional Consequences of Public Industrial Enterprises,” Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Summer, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 563-587.

 

1994             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Quesnay's Tableau Economique: Analytics and Policy Implications,” Oxford Economic Papers, July, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 519-533.

 

1994             Cihan Bilginsoy and Shahrukh R. Khan, “Cross-Sector Export ‘Externalities’ in Developing Countries,” Economics Letters, Vol.44, No.1-2, pp. 215-220.

 

1993             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Inflation, Growth, and Import Bottlenecks in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry,” Journal of Development Economics, October, Vol.42, No.1, pp. 111-131.

 

Book Chapters:

 

   2005             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Wage Regulation and Training: The Impact of State                            Prevailing Wage Laws on Apprenticeship,” in Hamid Azari-Rad, Peter Philips

and Mark J. Prus (eds.) The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp.149-168.

 

   1996             Günseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy, “The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor

                        Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis?” in Ellis Jay Goldberg (ed.) The Social History                      of Labor in the Middle East, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 37-64.

 

Book Review:

 

   1996             The Economy of Turkey since Liberalization, by S. Togan and V.K.

Balasubramanyam, eds., (Macmillan, 1996), in Turkish Studies Association

Bulletin, Fall, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 47-49.

 

Other Publications:

 

1997             Cihan Bilginsoy, “The Effect of Skills Development and Fair Wage Policy on Bidding Practices and Costs of Public School Construction,” in The Impact of Skills Development and Fair Wage Policy in Construction Costs in British Columbia: An Empirical Analysis of Some Key Issues, Government of Canada, May, pp. 3.1-3.38.

 

1997             Peter Philips and Cihan Bilginsoy, “Mining the Motherload of Numbers: A Close Look at This Year’s WMC Wage and Compensation Survey,” Reeves Journal, Vol. 77, No. 4, April, pp. 36-39.

 

Current Working Papers:

 

   2005             Cihan Bilginsoy, “Registered Apprentices and Apprenticeship Programs in the

U.S. Construction Industry between 1989 and 2003: An Examination of the AIMS, RAIS, and California Apprenticeship Agency Databases,” University of Utah Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 2005-09, http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/papers/2005_09.pdf

 

   2004             Norman Waitzman, Cihan Bilginsoy, Claire O. Leonard, Sharon L. Ernst, and

Annie Prince, “The Effect of Phenylalanine Test Frequency on Management of Phenylketonuria (PKU),” University of Utah, Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 2004-03. http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/papers/2004_03.pdf