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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a...

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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro‐level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐...

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Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Kroeger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

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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 … social security registration criterion is found to be a better measure of informality in the Turkish labor market given its …

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Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we … achievement in Turkey. Second, the inequality of opportunity in educational achievement shows a slightly decreasing trend over … time in Turkey. Third, the inequality of opportunity figures based on the mathematics, science and reading achievements …

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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

level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

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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

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … than 2004 levels for all levels of education; the pattern is less obvious for Turkey across the various levels. However …

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The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey

Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low …

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