Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51923 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5633
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for younger, less educated, low experienced workers than for older, more educated and more experienced workers. Another important finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates than their male counterparts.
Subjects: 
wage curve
fixed effects
instrumental variables
two-stage least squares
JEL: 
C26
J30
J60
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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