Browsing by Author "Tekgüç, Hasan"
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Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018)Social assistance has become prominent in combating poverty in developing countries and has also contributed to the popularity and election success of governments implementing it. In this paper I employ household surveys and investigate the effect of social assistance on poverty and income inequality in Turkey. I also review the recent literature on poverty as well as different components of social protection spending: education health pensions and housing. In the empirical analysis I show that ...
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Does migration contribute to women's empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019)This article empirically investigates the impact of internal migration on women's empowerment in urban areas of Turkey. Based on data from a nationally representative household survey we find that migration exerts a positive impact in urban settings through improvements in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Migration contributes to women's empowerment by raising their education levels and lowering the gap in schooling between men and women. Migration also allows migrants both men ...
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Ethnic fractionalization conflict and educational development in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019)We examine the impact of ethnic fractionalization and conflict on limiting the educational development in Southeastern Turkey. Our estimates show that although the armed conflict in the region did not directly hinder education investments it reduced school enrolment rates at middle and high school levels while increasing enrolment at the primary school level. Moreover we show that provinces with higher percentages of Kurdish population received less education investment. These results suggest that ...
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Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Walter de Gruyter, 2020)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 look at the quasi-experimental 2016 minimum wage increase and pay attention to identifying information coming from demographic groups. We find that the increase in the minimum wage had an economically ...
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Impact assesment of Turkey 2023 tourism action plan
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2019)Tourism Strategy of Turkey – 2023 and the Action Plan for 2013 [Tourism Strategy 2023] have the target of making Turkey a top brand in the world with superior income and visitor figures by 2023. One of the major aims of this new strategy is to increase revenue per tourist and it emphasizes the role of cultural tourism in reaching this goal. In this thesis, I investigate the impact of this strategy. I use both instrumental variable and panel data methods and find an impact of $103-$192 per tourist ...
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Is It Merely a Labor Supply Shock? Impacts of Syrian Migrants on Local Economies in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications, 2021)The authors use the occurrence of a large and geographically varying inflow of more than 2.5 million Syrian migrants to Turkey between 2012 and 2015 to study the effect of migration on local economies. They do not find adverse employment or wage effects for native-born Turkish workers overall or for those without a high school degree. These results are robust to a range of strategies to construct reliable control groups. To explain the findings, the authors document the importance of three ...
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Path dependence of public investment and regional development agency supports in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2017)
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'Who wants left-wing policies? Economic preferences and political cleavages in Turkey'
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020)We administer a survey of economic policy preferences to a representative sample of the Turkish voting-age population. We show that policy preferences are distributed in non-linear ways that are at odds with what could be expected from a conventional left-right division. We find that while objective socioeconomic differences are bad at predicting economic policy preferences, the latter are distinctly associated with politically salient cleavages built on religiosity and ethnicity. We also examine ...
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Women's Tertiary Education Masks the Gender Wage Gap in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2017)This paper investigates the gender wage gap for full-time formal sector employees disaggregated by education level. The gap between the labor force participation rate of women with tertiary education and those with lower levels of education is substantial. There is no such gap for men. Hence existing gender wage gap studies for Turkey where we observe lopsided labor force participation rates by education levels compare two very different populations. We disaggregate the whole sample by education ...
