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  • Working Paper No. 978 November 16, 2020

    Potential Impact of Daycare Closures on Parental Child Caregiving in Turkey

    Ebru Kongar, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    Daycares closed on March 16, 2020 in Turkey to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the two most common nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey—care of children by grandparents and nannies—became undesirable due to health concerns and in some cases also unfeasible due to the partial lockdown for individuals under the age of […]

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  • Working Paper No. 884 February 24, 2017

    Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle

    Ebru Kongar, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid work is largest among parents of […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 132 May 05, 2014

    Πόσο φτωχή είναι η Τουρκία και τι μπορεί να γίνει

    Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    H μέτρηση της σοβαρότητας της φτώχειας σε μια δεδομένη χώρα πρέπει να εξετάζει με έναν αρκετά περιεκτικό τρόπο το κατά πόσο τα άτομα και τα νοικοκυριά ξεπερνούν κάποιο βασικό όριο όσον αφορά την υλική ευημερία. Ωστόσο, αν και αυτό το σημείο πιθανώς να φαίνεται προφανές, στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις οι επίσημες μετρήσεις της φτώχειας αποτυγχάνουν αυτή […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 132 May 05, 2014

    How Poor Is Turkey? And What Can Be Done About It?

    Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    Gauging the severity of poverty in a given country requires a reasonably comprehensive measurement of whether individuals and households are surpassing some basic threshold of material well-being. This would seem to be an obvious point, and yet, in most cases, our official poverty metrics fail that test, often due to a crucial omission. In this […]

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  • Research Project Report May 01, 2014

    Time Deficits and Poverty

    Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    Official poverty lines in Turkey and other countries often ignore the fact that unpaid household production activities that contribute to the fulfillment of material needs and wants are essential for the household to reproduce itself as a unit. This omission has consequences. Taking household production for granted when measuring poverty yields an unacceptably incomplete picture, […]

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  • Working Paper No. 790 March 05, 2014

    Changes in Global Trade Patterns and Women’s Employment in Manufacturing

    Emel Memiş, Burca Kizilirmak, Şirin Saraçoğlu, and Ebru Voyvoda
    Abstract

    The purpose of this study is to explore the employment effects of changes in manufacturing output resulting from shifting trade patterns over the period 1995–2006. For 30 countries (21 OECD and 9 non-OECD countries) we estimate the changes in embodied labor content due to trade using factor-content analysis, breaking up the sources of these changes […]

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  • One-Pager No. 46 February 12, 2014

    Time and Consumption Poverty in Turkey

    Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    The Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty (LIMTCP) is a two-dimensional measure that takes into account both the necessary consumption expenditures and the household production time needed to achieve a minimum standard of living—factors often ignored in official poverty measures. In the case of Turkey, application of the LIMTCP reveals an additional 7.6 […]

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  • One-Pager No. 46 February 12, 2014

    Φτώχεια χρόνου και κατανάλωσης στην Τουρκία

    Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    Το Μέτρο Φτώχειας Χρόνου και Κατανάλωσης του Levy Institute (LIMTCP) είναι ένα δισδιάστατο μέτρο που λαμβάνει υπόψη τόσο τις απαραίτητες καταναλωτικές δαπάνες όσο και το χρόνο που απαιτείται από τα νοικοκυριά για την επίτευξη ενός ελάχιστου επιπέδου διαβίωσης, παράγοντες που συχνά αγνοούνται από την επίσημη μέτρηση της φτώχιας. Στην περίπτωση της Τουρκίας, η εφαρμογή του […]

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  • Working Paper No. 686 September 21, 2011

    Estimating the Impact of the Recent Economic Crisis on Work Time in Turkey

    Emel Memiş, and S. A. Kaya Bahçe
    Abstract

    This paper provides estimates of the impact of the recent economic crisis on paid and unpaid work time in Turkey. The data used in this study come from the first and only time-use survey available at the national level. Infrequency of collection of time-use data in Turkey does not allow us to make a direct […]

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  • Working Paper No. 600 May 26, 2010

    Time and Poverty from a Developing Country Perspective

    Rania Antonopoulos, and Emel Memiş
    Abstract

    This study is concerned with the measurement of poverty in the context of developing countries. We argue that poverty rankings must take into account time use dimensions of paid and unpaid work jointly. Reviewing the current state of the literature on this topic, our methodology introduces a critical but missing analytical distinction between time poverty […]

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  • Working Paper No. 572 August 13, 2009

    The Unequal Burden of Poverty on Time Use

    Emel Memiş, and Burca Kizilirmak
    Abstract

    This study uses the first time-use survey carried out in South Africa (2000) to examine women’s and men’s time use, with a focus on the impacts of income poverty. We empirically explore the determinants of time spent on different paid and unpaid work activities, including a variety of household and individual characteristics, using bivariate and […]

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