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This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is...
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This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the standard Calvo model. Real wage rigidities thus generate...
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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 …
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on key macro variables such as consumption, investment, imports and income in Turkey. The estimated impact and dynamic …
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This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … than 2004 levels for all levels of education; the pattern is less obvious for Turkey across the various levels. However …
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
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We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with …
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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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Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in …
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underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey …
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