Rural-urban migration and unemployment: evidence from Turkey

Download

index.pdf

Date

2009

Author

Güleç, Mukaddes Başak

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

352
views

251
downloads

The primary aim of this study is to explore the connection between rural - urban migration and unemployment in Turkey and examine whether this internal migration has an effect on increasing the unemployment rates. By using Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) panel data techniques and fully identifying these very concepts: migration from rural areas to urban areas, unemployment and internal migrations effects on the unemployment, an attention will be taken to the (negative) impact of internal migration on unemployment in Turkey.

Subject Keywords

Economics., Migration.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610588/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18723

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Brain drain from Turkey : an empirical investigation of the determinants of skilled migration and student non-return Güngör, Nil Demet; Tansel, Aysıt; Department of Economics (2004) This study deals with skilled migration from a developing country perspective. The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries to developed countries is often viewed as a costly subsidy from the poor nations to the rich, and a threat to their economic development. The first part of the study brings up to date both the theoretical and the policy debate on the impact of skilled migration on the sending economies. The second purpose of the study is to take a closer look at the motivations for sk...
Effect of different levels of education on economic development in Turkey : a panel analysis Hüsamoğlu, Müşerref; Tansel, Aysıt; Department of Economics (2008) In this study, I aimed to examine the impact of different levels of education on real GDP (and real GDP per workforce) in Turkey, and hence the relationship between different levels of education and the standard of living is estimated by panel data techniques. The panel data set in the study is constructed by pooling 67 provinces of Turkey over the period of 1975-2000. Furthermore, in the empirical work, two models are employed: the model introduced by Knowles (1997) and the augmented Solow model with diffe...
An empirical analysis of the relationship between financial deepening and economic growth: the case of Turkey Esen, Kılıç; Voyvoda, Ebru; Department of Economics (2008) This study aims to investigate the direction of the relationship between financial deepening and economic growth after the completion of financial liberalization in Turkey. In order to do this, an unbalanced panel data set of 49 OECD and emerging countries for 1953-2005 period is examined with Granger causality and panel data estimation techniques. In the light of panel data analysis results, quarterly Turkish time series data for 1987-2006 period is examined by using Granger causality, cointegration and Ve...
A multi-pronged approach to labor market flexibility: a survey on the Turkish context Ayhan, H. Sinem; Voyvoda, Ebru; Department of Economics (2008) Turkish labor market has been experiencing low employment performance over the last two decades. This pessimistic picture has become more striking after the crisis in 2001. While output growth has presented a rapid recovery, unemployment could not record such an improvement and has remained around 10 % since then. This fact has introduced a new phenomenon to Turkey called “jobless growth”. As a solution to the bottlenecks in the labor market, the concept of “flexibility” has been more frequently pronounced ...
Macroeconomic impact of workers' remittances on output growth: evidence from Turkey Yaşar, Pınar; Tansel, Aysıt; Department of Economics (2005) In this study, a demand oriented simultaneous equation macroeconometric model with a dynamic perspective is constructed in order to investigate the impact of workers̕ remittances on output growth via their effects on key macro variables such as private consumption, investment and imports for Turkey. The study covers the period of 1964-2003 on an annual basis. Results of the analysis suggest that workers̕ remittances affect output growth in a positive manner through the multiplier process. It is found that t...

Citation Formats

M. B. Güleç, “Rural-urban migration and unemployment: evidence from Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.