The author investigates the relationship between export orientation and female share of employment in the Turkish manufacturing sector, during 1983-85, following the onset of export-led industrialization policies. Using plant-level data the author finds that female share of employment in a plant...

We investigate the relationship between export orientation and female share of employment in the Turkish manufacturing sector, during 1983-85, following the onset of export-led industrialization policies. Using plant-level data we find that female share of employment in a plant increases with...

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,...

We analyze the behavior of plant-level real wages and productivity in Turkish manufacturing after the transition to democracy in 1987 and test whether wages under democracy causes productivity. The Turkish experience provides almost an experimental case: real wages in manufacturing increased by...