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In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...
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The emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in … Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that have led to an increase in unemployment among the … in the decision to return to Turkey or stay overseas. It is also found that the compulsory service requirement attached …
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distinct Muslim denominations in Turkey: Sunni and Alevi Muslims. We find a positive and significant effect of being an Alevi …
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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic …. We also show that Turkey has reached the turning point of the U-shaped pattern in female participation. In addition, we …
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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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As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
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1970s witnessed violent, widespread, and highly-politicized student protests in Turkey. Small protests turned into …
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This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic shocks on child schooling in Turkey using household labor force … surveys from 2005-2013. We use variation in local labor demand as an instrumental variable, particularly regional industry … composition and national industry employment growth rates. The results demonstrate that child schooling is pro-cyclical in Turkey …
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affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The unexpected arrival of a large number of refugees due to civil conflict …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
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