The present article "Study of Current and Potential Comparative Advantage of Azerbaijan Economy", which has been prepared as a contribution to the National  Employment Strategy, provides an analysis of the sectors and industries in which Azerbaijan is either currently competitive or there is...

Using a balanced panel data set drawn from TurkStat’s Income and Living Conditions Survey, we examine the transition of Turkish households into and out of poverty. During the four year period (2007-2010) under examination, the relative poverty rate had remained more or less the same in Turkey...

We study the effects of ethnic diversity, measured by the share of immigrants in the total population in the EU member countries, on the number of establishments and employment in the EU. We distinguish between different industries and between different groups of source (migrant-sending)...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of job finding. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir...

This study aims to analyse Turkish economy for the 2000-2012 term with emphasis on labor market hysteresis within the framework of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC). In this study employment and unemployment series are tested for stationarity and relevant statistical analysis is realized....

The study aims to analyze  Turkish economy for the period 2000-2012 with emphasis on hysteresis mechanism in labor markets. New Keynesian (NK) framework has natural rate (or Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemploymet - NAIRU) vs alternative theory of hysteresis as  explanations for...

This paper uses firm level survey data from Portugal to investigate how firms adjust their labour costs in the presence of wage rigidities. In particular, the paper contributes to the literature by analysing how firms, in the presence of wage rigidity, combine different channels of labour-cost...

This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in search and matching theories applied to labour economics, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented...

Due to the high concentration of economic activity along the low-lying coastal zone of the Nile delta and its dependence on Nile river streamflow, Egypt's economy is highly exposed to adverse climate change. Adaptation planning requires a forward-lookingn assessment of climate change impacts on...

Stadial development of countries is among consequences of the neoclassical growth model, called also as Solow model. Moreover, the model, supported by empirical studies, contributed to more refined analysis of economic development on a historical scale and to estimate future dynamics of economic...