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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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Turkey has the lowest hours worked (the product of total employment and annual hours per worker, divided by the size of … growth model accounts for the decline in total hours worked during 1998-2009 in Turkey. Hours worked increased in Turkey …-varying taxes on consumption and labor play significant roles in explaining the hours worked in Turkey. The subsistence term is …
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When examined in isolation, the 2002-2007 period in Turkey stands out as a high growth period. However, the relative … performance of Turkey in this period is weaker compared to China. The service sector in Turkey had the lowest labor productivity … aggregate productivity in Turkey. Using a newly constructed detailed sectoral database for China, I argue that if the service …
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, Turkey. The trade-off theory provides a better description of the capital structures of all firm types than the pecking order …
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We provide Bayesian estimates of an empirical model of consumer price inflation for Turkey based on the hybrid New …
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Turkey successfully increased its share in the world exports in the last decades. We examine the role of extensive … comparison with some other countries. Our results suggest that, Turkey was quite successful in extending its export products and … markets compared to other developing countries. The success of Turkey in extensive margin mostly comes from entering new …
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-through asymmetry in the fuel oil market in Turkey. With our approach it is possible to analyze asymmetry at various other grounds …
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Many central banks in emerging economies have used reserve requirements (RR) to alleviate the trade-off between financial stability and price stability in recent years. Notwithstanding their widespread use, transmission channels of RR have remained largely as a black-box. In this paper, we use...
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Turkey has been implementing import surveillance measures in order to protect its industry from unfair price cuts. One … mechanism causes over invoicing and that import figures of Turkey are inflated by around 2 to 3 billion dollars as of 2011. …
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In this paper, we discover the inclusiveness of GDP growth in Turkey over the course of the last decade. In doing so … efficiency-equity tradeoff in Turkey’s economic growth. …
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