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the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment of … men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls -which results mainly from the elimination of part-time jobs … complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men in the informal …
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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native-refugee gap in men’s employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men’s employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women’s employment … native-refugee gap in men’s (women’s) paid employment reduces to 4.7 (4.0) percentage points (pp). These small gaps conceal …
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With its dilatory and piecemeal fiscal activism and uncharacteristic reluctance toward IMF assistance, the Turkish government's response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009 sharply contrasted the bold approaches adopted by other major emerging market countries. Underlying this policy...
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-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...
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into discriminatory employment practices in Turkish municipalities. I combine data from 2009 municipal elections with a …
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This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...
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This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn...
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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