We analyze the export decision of the Turkish manufacturing plants from 1990 to 2001. In addition to the presence of high sunk costs of entry in export markets, we find support for the hypothesis that the full history of exporting matters for the current export decision. However, the effect of...

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...

The small firm has increasingly become the focus of public policy designed to decrease unemployment in the developed and less developed countries. In the 1970s, international organisations started to advocate the promotion of SMEs in LDCs to alleviate the problems of unemployment. It is argued...

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...