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Is there an informal employment wage penalty In Egypt?

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...

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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022

lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

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War and Science in Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...

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Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent

Hager, Sebastian; Schwarz, Carlo; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent. We exploit the introduction of a new measure of scientific performance: citation metrics. For technical reasons, the first citation database only covered citations from certain journals and years. Thus, only a subset of citations...

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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction

Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioglu, Şaziye - 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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Defining and measuring informality in the Turkish labor market

Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysıt - 2014

ability to capture the key relationships between several individual and employment characteristics and the likelihood of …

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Southwest as the new internal migration destination in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as new magnets for internal migration in the country. Socio-economic, demographic and labor market characteristics of immigrants coming to these two provinces from various regions are studied to uncover the reasons fueling...

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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Özdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcılar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...

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Output-employment relationship across sectors: A long- versus short-run perspective

Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysıt; Berument, M. Hakan - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even though we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …

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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country: The case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...

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