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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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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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Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...

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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

transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … have higher unemployment rates than urban men because they have lower probability of exiting unemployment for a job and …

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