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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …

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Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …

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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

-employment, unemployment government employment and out of labor market states. …

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel...

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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...

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Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...

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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey. …

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...

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