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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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We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
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In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...
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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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