The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city ´Yzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most...

The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city Ýzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most...

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and widespread discrepancies between labor market outcomes of women and of men. We...

We argue overcoming the reticence induced by the wartime (WW1) expulsion and extermination of Anatolia’s Christians is necessary for a correct assessment of Turkey’s developmental performance. To this effect we investigate the drivers of pre-WWI commercial agriculture in Turkey using the...