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Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country : The Case of Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 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 effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor …

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit - 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...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 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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Gender-biased redistribution and intra-household distribution

Dasgupta, Indraneel - In: European economic review : EER 45 (2001) 9, pp. 1711-1722

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...

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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...

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Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days Out of Work by Gender : Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2017

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...

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