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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175893" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175893</id>
  <updated>2026-04-30T03:04:35Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-30T03:04:35Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>Job networks in Izmir: Why are migrants different?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175931" />
    <author>
      <name>Duman, Alper</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Göksel, Idil</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175931</id>
    <updated>2023-11-19T02:24:33Z</updated>
    <published>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Job networks in Izmir: Why are migrants different?
Authors: Duman, Alper; Göksel, Idil
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of finding employment. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir Chamber of Commerce, the Izmir branch of theTurkish Statistical Institute and the Turkish Labour Institute. Izmir, the third biggest city in Turkey, attracts both skilled and unskilled migrants, and has become one of the preferred destinations for migrants. The relative success of migrants in employment relates to their use of job search channels. We differentiate job search channels into formal/individual, and network forms. The latter refers to the job referral or job information diffusion through relatives and acquaintances. We find that migrants benefit from a comparative advantage in the usage of the network channel. Moreover, this network advantage is more robust for less educated workers.</summary>
    <dc:date>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Economic Convergence in the EU: A Complexity Approach</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175932" />
    <author>
      <name>Ertan Özgüzer, Gül</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Oæguøs, Ayla</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175932</id>
    <updated>2023-12-08T02:22:01Z</updated>
    <published>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Economic Convergence in the EU: A Complexity Approach
Authors: Ertan Özgüzer, Gül; Oæguøs, Ayla
Abstract: This paper tests, in the context of the EU countries, the evidence presented by Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) that economic complexity indicator is a good predictor of economic growth. Our results suggest that a group of countries in the EU with an economic complexity exceeding a certain threshold tends to converge to the levels of income corresponding to their measured complexity. On the other hand, current account deficits in interaction with economic complexity have important effects on growth for a second group of countries with lower levels of complexity. We also find that income convergence is faster within the first group. Therefore, we argue that convergence is much faster for countries whose economic complexity exceeds a certain threshold.</summary>
    <dc:date>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Input-Output Networks and Growth Performances across Countries</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175933" />
    <author>
      <name>Duman, Alper</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Ertan Özgüzer, Gül</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175933</id>
    <updated>2023-12-28T03:00:12Z</updated>
    <published>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Input-Output Networks and Growth Performances across Countries
Authors: Duman, Alper; Ertan Özgüzer, Gül
Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth performances of countries and their structural input-output network characteristics. We employ a new centrality measure developed by Blöchl et al. (2011) for directed networks with self-loops to determine sectoral heterogeneities in IO tables of 33 OECD countries over the period 1995-2011. Relating the gini indices of these centrality measures to output growth reveals that countries with less heterogenous IO networks tend to grow faster. Such finding implies a key role for the inter-linkages across sectors in economic growth, and underlines the importance of designation of sectoral policy measures to counteract heterogeneity of IO networks.</summary>
    <dc:date>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Maternal employment and female labor force participation: A case study from Turkey</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175930" />
    <author>
      <name>Eryar, Değer</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Tekgüç, Hasan</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175930</id>
    <updated>2023-11-02T02:19:18Z</updated>
    <published>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Maternal employment and female labor force participation: A case study from Turkey
Authors: Eryar, Değer; Tekgüç, Hasan
Abstract: The focus of this paper is to examine the impact of having a working mother on their daughter's labor force participation rate for the first time in Turkey by using a representative sample from the third largest city ´Yzmir. Our findings indicate that the gender role attitude is one of the most important determinants of women's initial entry into the labor force, especially for those women with lower education levels. However, the same effect loses its significance as a factor in women's decision to remain in the labor force. This result suggests that although the gender role attitude can induce low-educated women to participate in the labor market initially, the lack of adequate work-family reconciliation policies in Turkey seem to adversely affect their decision to stay in the labor force as wives and mothers.</summary>
    <dc:date>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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