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This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and … worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … 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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differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity … corrected wage equations are estimated for each sector for men and women separately. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of the wage … differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled …
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The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …
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We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that …
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duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … market conditions are examined. The analyses are carried out for men and women separately. The results indicate that the … nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries. …
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unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of … are considered. The analyses are carried out for men and women separately. Our results indicate that women are … different for men and women. For men, there is slight U-shaped duration dependence, while for women there is no duration …
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level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low …
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In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
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theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …
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