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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

Naufal, George S; Genc, Ismail H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...

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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the presence of a structural break at unknown date. Our...

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Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Suardi, Sandy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The time-series approach used in the minimum wage literature essentially aims to estimate a treatment effect of increasing the minimum wage. In this paper, we employ a novel approach based on aggregate time-series data that allows us to determine if minimum wage changes have significant effects...

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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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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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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

theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …

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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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