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This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on dismissed workers in Turkey. Earnings equations at state employment and after dismissal are estimated and compared to evaluate the changes in worker's welfare. Dismissed workers experienced significant earnings losses upon reemployment. Earnings losses were smaller for the self employed than for the wage employed. Post-dismissal jobs were not only characterized by lower earnings but also by a lower quality of non-monetary attributes. The magnitude of the true welfare losses are inferred from the subjective evaluations provided by the workers themselves. Workers felt that what they had lost had not been fully compensated by the severance pay they received.
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The effect of privatization on labor has been one of the least addressed issues.
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Post-dismissal jobs offered lower earnings. Their non-monetary benefits were also of lower quality. The subjective evaluations indicated that the loss the workers suffered were not fully compensated by the severance pay they received.
Professor Aysit - Tansel
Middle East Technical University
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This page is a summary of: Effects of Privatization on Labor in Turkey, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2002, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.303440.
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