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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa and central …
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Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at … the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative … sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to examine a rich set of labor market outcomes. We find that the …
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Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the … relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market conditions. This paper examines how this massive …
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We study the effect of an influx of approximately three million Syrian refugees on voting behavior in Turkey. We use a …
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The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more … than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee … influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey …
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estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a …
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We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female...
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Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian …Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern … refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that …
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labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset on Syrian refugees in Turkey, the largest refugee group in any single … that paid work is positively associated with poverty, proficiency in Turkish, living in an industrialized region in Turkey …, originating from rural areas in Syria and living in a household with a young, female, or less-educated head. Family composition …
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