The Effects of Major Earthquakes on the Labor Market: Evidence from Turkiye

Asli Dolu () and Hüseyin Ikizler ()
Additional contact information
Asli Dolu: Izmir Bakirçay University
Hüseyin Ikizler: Ostim Technical University

No 1571, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: This study focuses on the impact of earthquakes on the labor market. We try to estimate the impact of two major earthquakes (Izmir and Elazig) in Turkiye. We consider the earthquakes a natural experiment and employ a synthetic control method using data from TURKSTAT and ISKUR. The results show that the impact varies based on the labor market structure of the regions. While the earthquake positively affects the labor market of agriculture-oriented regions, it harms the labor market of non-agricultural-oriented regions.

Pages: 15
Date: 2022-08-20, Revised 2022-08-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published by The Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Downloads: (external link)
https://erf.org.eg/publications/the-effects-of-maj ... ence-from-turkiye-2/ (application/pdf)
https://bit.ly/3Bgm5mE (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:erg:wpaper:1571

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Economic Research Forum Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Namees Nabeel ().