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The effects of a Syrian refugee neighborhood on socio-economy of Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2020) Abed, Mohammed K. A.; Hamwy, Maryam; Amirabadi, Raha; Samiei, Ahmadreza; Abunemeh, Yara
In 2011, a civil war started that led to the migration of millions of Syrians to neighboring countries. A couple of years later, a deal was signed between the European Union and Turkey which stated that Turkey is willing to accept a large number of Syrian immigrants in its country, and The EU part of the deal was to support Turkey during this major change and help provide the immigrants with their necessities met. Since then, many aspects have changed in the living conditions in Turkey. In this research paper, we are going to investigate the socio-economic conditions of a single neighborhood in Ankara that has been occupied by a few Syrian refugee families while also delving into how their migration has affected Turkish cultures.
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Essays in applied microeconomics
(2024-07) Yılmaz, Zeynep
This thesis consists of three essays in Applied Microeconomics. The first essay examines the causal effects of grandmothers’ geographical proximity on labour supply decisions of married women with young children in Turkey. We show that living in the same neighbourhood as grandmothers increases the probability of labour force participation and the employment rates of women with young children by 18.2 ppt and 16.4 ppt, respectively. The size of the impact gets smaller as the proximity definition indicates a shorter distance. The second essay investigates several mechanisms to explore the positive effect of grandmothers’ proximity on mothers’ labor force participation. These channels include childcare, elderly care, and traditional gender norms. While the elderly care channel does not affect our main results, we argue that grandmothers’ proximity affects mothers’ labor market outcomes through childcare and traditional gender norm channels. The third essay analyzes the causal effects of the massive Syrian refugee inflow on natives’ health outcomes in Turkey. Exploring potential mechanisms behind health effects, the refugee influx positively affects the health of high-skilled and employed native males, while having no significant impact on low-skilled native males or females. Following the refugee inflow, working conditions for high-skilled males improved and job opportunities for low-skilled males declined.
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Globalisation and/or Europeanisation? the case of flexicurity
(Routledge, 2013) Tsarouhas, D.; Ladi, S.
The relationship between globalisation and Europeanisation is conventionally studied by focusing on the domestic level. In this article we explore this relationship at the international level instead. We examine the way in which the two phenomena in the form of the ILO and the EU relate to one another. Adopting a discursive institutionalist approach and focusing on flexicurity, we investigate whether, how and under what conditions the discourse on flexicurity provides a point of convergence or divergence between globalisation and Europeanisation. Our empirical data reveals attempts by the European Commission to use globalisation as a legitimating device for a market-accommodating programme for labour market reform. The ILO remains more sceptical, both about the overall effects of globalisation and the more concrete uses of flexicurity. Meanwhile, the concept of flexicurity is subject to change and rearticulation in line with the evolving policy agenda endorsed by the Commission and/or the member states. The relationship between Europe and globalisation is thus far from neutral. 'Europe' is active in shaping globalisation; translated into the work undertaken here, Europeanisation could be conceived as a facet of globalisation rather than as a bulwark to it, or merely as a process running parallel to it.
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The effects of covid -19 pandemic on employment of older workers
(2023-06) İplikçi, Çağla
Turkey is one of the many countries where the Covid-19 outbreak burst. The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected human life in many aspects, including the economy, in the whole world. One of the most affected groups by the pandemic has been the older population due to both health-related concerns and the difficulties of transitioning to the remote working system brought by the pandemic. In this thesis, I analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the employment of older workers, using the Turkish Statistical Institute's Labor Force Statistics Micro Data Set for the years 2014 and 2021. In this study, I examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on employment through the retirement, quit, and dismissal variables. The retirement and quit variables represent the labor supply, and the dismissal variable represents the labor demand. While the findings of this study show that the Covid-19 pandemic decreased the employment rate of females and males in 2020, it suggests evidence that this decrease is higher for women than men. I also find evidence suggesting that Covid-19 has heterogeneous effects on employment by education levels and the sector in which the individual works, as well as gender.
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Turkey’s employment subsidy program under the great recession: a general equilibrium assessment
(Routledge, 2017) Yeldan, A. E.
The objective of this paper is to provide an impact analysis of the macroeconomic consequences of the employment subsidization programs in Turkey implemented under the post-2008 crisis period. To this end, an applied general equilibrium model (of the computable general equilibrium–CGE variety) is utilized to investigate the production, incomes generation, and aggregate demand components of the domestic economy. The analysis highlights the rather limited returns to the subsidization package, and argues that much of this was due to the dis-equilibriating and fragile macroeconomic environment under the neoliberal policy framework. The massive drop of domestic savings; a severe mis-alignment in the real exchange rate causing significant appreciation of the domestic currency; rise of the external deficit and of foreign indebtedness along with a severe fall in the total productivity effort were different facets of this poor macroeconomic performance. Thus, an important message of the study is that, had the macroeconomic balances were maintained at their historical averages, and a more competitive exchange rate could have been pursued, as much as threefolds of a gain in aggregate employment could have been generated with the same intensity of the employment subsidization package, in comparison to the historically realized levels. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.