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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320605
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320559
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320532
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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality
Perugini, Marco; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005
Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297239
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Hazard analysis of unemployment duration by gender in a development country: The case of Turkey
TANSEL, AYSIT; TASÇI, H.MEHMET - 2010
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320476
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Historic Sex-Ratio Imbalances Predict Female Participation in the Market for Politicians
Grant, Iris; Kesternich, Iris; Steckenleiter, Carina; … - 2018
We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932978
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Working more for less: Part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363819
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019
the probability of being employed, unemployed but actively looking for a job, an unpaid family worker or involved in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156199
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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers
Zimmermann, Markus - 2019
This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141862