Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey Evidence from individual-level data
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, vol.44, no.4, pp.617-635, 2017 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 44 Issue: 4
- Publication Date: 2017
- Doi Number: 10.1108/jes-06-2015-0103
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
- Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.617-635
- Keywords: Multinomial logit, Informality, Mobility, Turkey, Europe and Central Asia, Labour market dynamics, Markov transition analysis, MARKET, INFORMALITY, SEGMENTATION, TRANSITION, AMERICA, MEXICO
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
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.