Three Empirical Essays on International Trade and Public Economics

<p>This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on the economic impacts of various policy issues on Turkish labor market and international trade. Chapter 1 examines the employment and wage effects of the refugee influx from Syria on Turkish native labor. Results indicate statistically significant negative employment and wage effects on the low-skilled and less-experienced individuals especially in the border regions. The second chapter investigates the impact of the presence of foreign missions on trade. This study uses Turkey’s aggressive expansion in its foreign mission network as the source of variation and finds significant positive effect on both the exports and imports. The final chapter, coauthored with Devashish Mitra, analyzes the impact of the imports from China on employment shares and wages across the various Turkish manufacturing industries for the period 2004-2015. The results imply a relative positive impact on employment share in skilled labor intensive sectors and more precise larger negative impact on wages in all sectors.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Bagir, Yusuf Kenan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Devashish Mitra
• Dimitar D. Gueorguiev

• Economic diplomacy
• International trade
• Manufacturing employment
• Migration economics
• Syrian refugees
• Turkey
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://surface.syr.edu/etd/557

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:surface.syr.edu:etd-1557