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Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Skill-Enhancing Trade in Turkey: Evidence from Longitudinal Microdata

Srour, Ilina; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically …

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death … sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …

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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity …

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Brain Drain from Turkey: An Investigation of Students’ Return Intentions

Güngör, Nil Demet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in … Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that have led to an increase in unemployment among the … in the decision to return to Turkey or stay overseas. It is also found that the compulsory service requirement attached …

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …

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