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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more...

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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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The Effect of Education on Health : Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …

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Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Soner Baskaya, Yusuf - 2022

This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the … spatial wage curve relation holds both for formal and informal workers in Turkey for a variety of specifications. In general …

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The Turkish Wage Curve : Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2011

finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …

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How Different are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2012

This paper presents wage curves for formal and informal workers using a rich individual level data for Turkey over the … Turkey, less attention has focused on how this relationship differs for informal versus formal employment. This is of utmost … Household Labor Force Survey observed over 26 NUTS-2 regions, we find that real hourly wages of informal workers in Turkey are …

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Gender Wage Gap - a Matching Analysis for Three MENA Countries : Egypt, Jordan and Turkey

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …

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School to Work Transition and Macroeconomic Conditions in the Turkish Economy

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

macroeconomic context. In the present study, we examine the school-to-work transition in Turkey over the period 2014-2017 by using a …

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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

Bloom, David E. - 2020

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...

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Health and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2018

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...

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