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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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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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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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