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The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...

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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes

Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demircioğlu, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting … the significant variation in the development level across regions of Turkey, several of which host a substantial number of … development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of …

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Child growth and refugee status : evidence from Syrian migrants in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Foster, Andrew D.; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022

This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view toward understanding the need for targeted programs addressing child well-being among the refugee population, we analyze, in particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health...

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Quasi-experimental impact estimates of immigrant labor supply shocks : the role of treatment and comparison group matching and relative skill composition

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2013

This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration - the politically-driven exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor force due to this inflow of repatriates was 5 to 10 percent. A key feature of our context is the...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions

Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...

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Purchasing-power-parity and the saving behavior of temporary migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Brausmann, Alexandra; Djajić, Slobodan; … - 2018

How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving decisions of temporary migrants and then test its implications by using data...

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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021

Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...

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