This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not … export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this "bribe tax" on productivity are compared to the consequences of red … tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is insignificant. At …

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …

Turkey has historically struggled to attract foreign investors. This paper argues that not only macroeconomic and … foreign direct investment attraction in Turkey. However, it seems that the global economic slowdown starting in 2009 and … the collapse of foreign direct investment inflows to Turkey …

integrated into the world economy. Second, Turkey's export performance in 1996-2004 in EU markets bears strong similarities to …This is an empirical paper seeking to identify the mode of Turkey's integration into global markets in general, and pan … observations. First, thanks to steady expansion of trade in goods and services since the mid-1980s, Turkey has become highly …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … opposite appears to be the case in Turkey: manufacturing firms with service affiliates tend to be less productive. The type of … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

force participation in seven Balkan countries and Turkey. The paper examines the quantitative effects of the gender gaps on … aggregate productivity and income per capita in these countries. In the model used to carry out this calculation, agents choose …

urbanization economies, as well as market accessibility, are productivity-enhancing factors in Turkey, although the causation link …Since the early 1980s, Turkey has been going through a rapid urbanization process at a pace beyond the World average …. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The …