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

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …

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

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 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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Defining and measuring informality in the Turkish labor market

Acar, Elif Oznur; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014

This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...

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Changes in Global Trade Patterns and Women's Employment in Manufacturing: an Analysis over the Period of Asianization and De-industrialization

Kizilirmak, Burca; Memis, Emel; Saracoglu, Sirin; … - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014

The purpose of this study is to explore the employment effects of changes in manufacturing output resulting from changes in trade patterns over the period 1995-2006. For 30 countries (21 OECD and 9 non-OECD countries) we estimate the changes in embodied labor content due to trade using the...

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Labor Market Policies and EU Accession: Problems and Prospects for Turkey

Taymaz, Erol; Ozler, Sule - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2004

The process of European Union Accession has provided a strong stimulus for various institutional changes in Turkey. The European Council decision taken at Helsinki (10-11 December 1999) was an important turning point in this process. The Accession Partnership, which followed the Helsinki summit,...

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Economic Development and Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: Time-Series Evidence and Cross-Province Estimates

Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2001

three time points-1980, 1985 and 1990. The results affirm the U-shaped impact of economic development. Further, unemployment … positive. The hidden unemployment computations indicate that urban female unemployment rate is underestimated and the …

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

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 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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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence From Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 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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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012

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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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence … on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in … two respects. First, we consider not only the response of total unemployment but also the response of unemployment by …

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