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Emigration and Wages : The EU Enlargement Experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to...

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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement

Elsner, Benjamin - 2012

Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK...

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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...

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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country

Karaoglan, Deniz - 2017

This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … quantiles. This implies that females have higher tendency to be obese in Turkey.Our findings also imply that the positive effect …

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Output-Employment Relationship Across Sectors : A Long- Versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...

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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Kan, Elif Oznur - 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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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey : Conflicting or Compatible Roles?

Ozgoren, Ayse - 2018

two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … exponential modelling, using data from the 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this … employment among women in Turkey, with increasing intensities identified among some groups of women. Our findings also cast light …

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