Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces...

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Year of publication:	2008-05-01
Authors:	Betcherman, Gordon ; Daysal, N. Meltem ; Pagés, Carmen
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitslosigkeit \| unemployment \| Sozialversicherungsbeitrag \| social security contributions \| Verlust \| Loss Given Default \| Einkommen \| income \| Finanzierungshilfe \| financial assistance

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1 Introduction
2 Previous Literature
3 Regional Subsidies in Turkey
4 Data and Specication
4.1 Data
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Summary statistics
5 Econometric Results
5.1 Employment
5.2 Number of establishments
5.3 Earnings
5.4 Anticipation of Laws
6 Formalization versus Job Creation
7 Cost of the programs
8 Conclusions
A Description of Subsidy Coverage
References

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