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Over the last half century, large-scale changes to coal industries across Europe, and more recently in the United States and China, have resulted in as many as 4 million coal workers losing their jobs. The main drivers of these changes are mine mechanization, government policies and competition...
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or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …
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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 …
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Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer bias is measured through a novel loan application...
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audit study, an online job portal in Turkey is used to send fictitious resumes to real job openings, collecting a unique …
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This paper explores the effects of a large increase in the national minimum wage in Turkey on firms' exit rates from …
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This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor …
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Turkey has moved rapidly from a current account that was relatively in balance up to the turn of the millennia, to … established in Turkey, driven by an expansion of credit to households and rapid gross domestic product growth, coupled with … current account deficit. The current account balance in Turkey is also found to be less persistent than is typically found in …
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This study analyses how the Syrian refugee inflows into turkey affected firm entry and performance. To estimate the …
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This paper introduces a new Job Quality Index that measures the quality of jobs in Turkey over the last decade. While … (and bad) jobs in Turkey and identifies the types of reforms that are needed to enable workers to benefit from increasing …
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