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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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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey : Conflicting or Compatible Roles?

Ozgoren, Ayse - 2018

The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration, especially for developing countries where the micro and macro evidence fails to paint a clear picture. This study analyzes the two-way relationship between women's employment...

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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap : Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2012

In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed … typically subject to lower remuneration than similar workers in the formal sector. Estimation of standard Mincer earnings … are not uniform along the earnings distribution. More specifically, we find that informal penalty decreases with the …

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit - 2013

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

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2014

This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...

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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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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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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysit - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment...

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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries : An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)

Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2021

This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...

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Labor Mobility Across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey : Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit - 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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