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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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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019
-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140318
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The effects of civil war and forced migration on intimate partner violence among Syrian refugee women in Jordan
Gökçe, Merve Betül; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2024
violence (IPV) among Syrian women in Jordan, the country with the second highest refugee-to-native ratio worldwide. We analyze … data from the 2017-18 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey, which includes a nationally representative sample of … were married before the civil war. Additionally, the rise in IPV after the refugees' arrival in Jordan diminishes over time …
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Syrian refugees and human capital accumulation of native children in Turkey
Çakır, Selcen; Erbay, Elif; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market conditions. This paper examines how this massive refugee influx affects native working-age children's...
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Immigration and prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2016
We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a comprehensive data set on the regional prices of CPI items, we...
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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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The effect of refugees on native adolescents' test scores: quasi-experimental evidence from Pisa
Tumen, Semih - 2021
Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor market. In this paper, I test whether refugee influx can also increase the intensity of human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418497
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Do refugees impact voting behavior in the host country? : evidence from Syrian refugee inflows in Turkey
Altindag, Onur; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2017
We study the effect of an influx of approximately three million Syrian refugees on voting behavior in Turkey. The analysis is based on data from three recent general elections, 54 waves of a monthly survey on voter preferences as well as a unique field survey that directly measures voter...
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Immigration, housing rents, and residential segregation : evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
Balkan, Binnur; Tok, Elif Ozcan; Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, … - 2018
The massive inflow of Syrian refugees is argued to drastically affect various social and economic outcomes in the hosting countries and regions. In this paper, we use micro-level data to investigate whether the Syrian refugee inflows have affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The...
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Local governance quality and the environmental cost of forced migration
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Tumen, Semih - 2020
Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case...
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