Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey Evidence from individual-level data

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Tansel, Aysıt

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Purpose - This paper, the first one to use individual-level Turkish panel data, examines the labor market transitions in Turkey along the formal/informal employment divide. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the limited body of empirical evidence available on mobility and informality in the Turkish labor market.

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Labor market dynamics, Informality, Markov processes, Multinomial logit

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31913

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1108/jes-06-2015-0103

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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A. Tansel, “Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey Evidence from individual-level data,” JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, pp. 617–635, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31913.