From Guest to Second Class Workers: Wage Discrimination among Syrian and Turkish Workers

Mustafa Kahveci ()
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Mustafa Kahveci: İstanbul University

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis, 2019, vol. 4, issue 2, 97-118

Abstract: It is clear that immigrants, when participating in labor markets, are forced to turn towards labor-intensive sectors where wages are low, flexibility is the most intensive, and demand for skilled workers is the least. It can be said that the Turkish labor market has experienced a significant immigrant labor input mostly due to the movement of Syrian refugees, with a number of some 3 million today, following the civil war in Syria. Based on Istanbul, Turkey’s quantitatively most Syrian refugee-receiving city, this study examines the wage discrimination between native workers and Syrian immigrant workers in the textile sector having a composition of labour intensive, lowwage, and where informality is most common. In this context, the study aims to analyze the wage gap on the textile labor market, and also to examine the possible causes of the wage discrimination in the sector.

Keywords: Wage Discrimantion; Human Capital Theory; Migration; Textile Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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