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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

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Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Tasçi, H. Mehmet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the...

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Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Tasci, H. Mehmet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The...

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Unemployment and Transitions in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tasci, H. Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to …

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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...

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