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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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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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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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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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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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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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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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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence … on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in … two respects. First, we consider not only the response of total unemployment but also the response of unemployment by …

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