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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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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011

sector employment, geographic location, firm size, industry of employment and their contribution to wage inequality. Recent …

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018

address sector of employment selection issue for both males and females. We find that there is very little evidence of sample …

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Intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at … implying that intergenerational educational mobility increased significantly for the younger generations of children in Turkey …

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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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Labor Mobility Across The Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence From Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - 2012

distinct labor market states and identifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility … across distinct employment states utilizing Markov transition processes. As Bosch and Maloney (2007:3) argue: "labor status … mobility can be assumed as a process in which changes in the states occur randomly through time, and probabilities of moves …

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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment...

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