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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 … provinces and those going to other migrant magnets, between immigrants and natives in Antalya and Muğla, and among immigrants … coming to the two provinces from various origins are noted. What distinguishes Antalya and Muğla from other migrant …

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Der türkische Tomatensektor: regionale Gesichtspunkte und räumliche Marktintegration

Weitzel, Enno-Burghard; Keskin, Gülsen; Brosig, Stephan - 2008

In der Wertschöpfung der türkischen Landwirtschaft hat die Obst- und Gemüseproduktion große Bedeutung und Tafel- und Industrietomaten sind wiederum das wichtigste Einzelprodukt unter den Gemüsesorten. Das Papier beschreibt die Struktur und Entwicklung des Sektors seit den 1990-er Jahren und...

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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings GAP: Evidence From Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Öznur - 2012

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

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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Private tutoring and the question of equitable opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The nature of the private tutoring and its relation to the two national selection examinations in...

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Gasoline pricing, taxation and asymmetry: The case of Turkey

Bor, Özgür; İsmihan, Mustafa - 2013

This study analyzes the role of tax policy in gasoline prices in Turkey by utilizing time series techniques. It provides and compares empirical results by using daily gasoline prices between January 2005 and July 2012, with and without the effect of taxation. Our results, based on the standard...

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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...

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Resurgence of Selective Industrial Policy: What Turkey Needs

Yilmaz, Gokhan - 2011

Three decades of Turkish experience with nonselective industrial policies (consistent with neoliberal policy) clearly demonstrates that structural transformation in Turkish economy could not be achieved. In this paper, we have three motivations. Our first motivation is to discuss overall...

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No Appealing Future For High Growth Low Profitability Firms: Evidence from Turkeys Top 1000

Yildirim, Nuri - 2011

The view that profitability, not growth, is the driving force behind the firm performance, and unprofitable high growth can not lead to financial success has often been discussed in the literature. In this study, I tested this hypothesis on Turkey's top 1000 data using an extended version of the...

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The Turkish Economy After The Crisis

Rodrik, Dani - 2009

The recent crisis has demonstrated that a financially open economy has many sources of vulnerability. Even when a country does its homework, it remains at the mercy of developments in external financial markets. So, one lesson is that policy needs to guard not just against domestic shocks, but...

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