In this paper, we estimate wage compensation of workers facing different risks adversely affecting their health and well-being based on individual evaluations of work environment by using the ad-hoc module of 2013 Household Labor Survey. Our results reveal that among various risk factors, only...

The transition from multi-ethnic, multi-confessional Ottoman Empire into present day Turkey was unusually violent and destructive. It involved the annihilation of indigenous Christian populations and the loss of agricultural, artisanal and commercial know-how accumulated over centuries. We...

This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on crowding out/in effects of public transfers in Turkey. We estimate the effects of public transfers on the amount and likelihood of receiving private transfers. We find that individual-level public transfers lead to crowding out whereas...