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Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership
(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 ...
Women's Tertiary Education Masks the Gender Wage Gap in Turkey
(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 ...
Ethnic fractionalization conflict and educational development in Turkey
(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 ...
Does migration contribute to women's empowerment? Portrait of urban Turkey and Istanbul
(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 ...