This study, on the impact of privatization on dismissed workers in Turkey, is the first of its kind. It is based on interviews with dismissed workers in the cement and petrochemicals sectors. Sevred workers suffered significant earning losses upon re-employment. These losses amounted to an...

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollement have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern...

Recently, there has been an upsurge of empirical studies that test the convergence prediction of the neoclassical growth theory at the country, regional, state or provincial levels. These studies examine whether poorer economies will eventually catch up with richer ones in terms of both income...