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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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The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction …
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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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This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing …
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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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level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health problem in Turkey at all levels of education. Further, alcohol consumption and schooling are positively related and it …
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During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population residing in a province other than the one they were born in increased from 12 percent in 1950 to...
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from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey … characterized by fast economic and social development. Although English is the most widely spoken foreign language in Turkey, we …
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This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing … of the highest among the European Union (EU) countries. The wage mobility in Turkey is lower than what is observed in the …
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