across distinct employment states utilizing Markov transition processes. As Bosch and Maloney (2007:3) argue: "labor status … of individual characteristics (i.e. gender, age, education level, work experience, sector of economic activity, firm size …

ability to capture the key relationships between several individual and employment characteristics and the likelihood of …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

native-refugee gap in men's employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men's employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women's employment … native-refugee gap in men's (women's) paid employment reduces to 4.7 (4.0) percentage points (pp). These small gaps conceal …

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …