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İnsan Tunalı is Associate Professor of Economics at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985;
M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1975;
M.S in Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley 1975;
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1973.
Research Interests
Population and Labor Market Dynamics in Turkey & the Middle East
Household Survey Methodology
Selected Publications
"Female Labor Supply in Turkey." In The Turkish Economy: The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform and Stabilization Policy, edited by Sumru AltuÄŸ and Alpay Filiztekin, 92-127. Routledge Curzon Series in Middle Eastern Economics, 2006.
Background Study on the Labor Market and Employment in Turkey. (With H. Ercan, C. Başlevent, O. D. Öztürk, and U. Akçiğit.) European Training Foundation, Torino, Italy, 2003.
"Wage Formation and Recurrent Unemployment." (With Ragui Assaad.) Labor Economics (February 2002) 17-61.
"Wage Formation in The Construction Sector in Egypt." (With Ragui Assaad.) In Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East, edited by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, 293-335. Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2001.
"Rationality of Migration." International Economic Review, 41 (November 2000) 893-920.
"Stratified Partial Likelihood Estimation" (With Geert Ridder.) Journal of Econometrics, 92 (October 1999) 193-232.
"Cox Regression with Alternative Concepts of Waiting Time: The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853. " (With Jonathan Pritchett.) Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12:1 (Jan.-March 1997) 1-25.
"A General Structure for Models of Double-Selection and an Application to a Joint Migration/ Earnings Process with Re-migration." In Research in Labor Economics, Volume 8, Part B. R. Ehrenberg (Ed.), 235-82. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1986.
Grants and Consulting
Grants: 1987-89 NICHD Public Health Service Award. Project title: "Determinants and Consequences of Migration."; 1991-92 Louisiana Board of Regents, LEQSF Enhancement Award. Project title: "Establishment of the Center for Economic Modeling at the Department of Economics, Tulane University."; 1999 Economic Research Forum Research Award, World Bank (DGF) Program. Project Title: "Female Labor Supply in Egypt, Iran and Turkey."; 1999 Economic Research Forum Research Award, World Bank (DGF) Program. Project Title: "Structural Adjustment and Gender Gaps in Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Turkey."; 2000 Economic Research Forum Research Award, World Bank (DGF) Program. Project Title: "A Comparative Study of the Economic Returns to Education in Egypt, Iran and Turkey."
Consulting: European Commission DG Employment (2005); International Labor Office, Ankara Office (1994-99); State Institute of Statistics, Turkey (1995-99, 2001-3); World Bank (1984, 1999, 2003-4).
Honors and Awards
1985 Dorothy S. Thomas Award for excellence in the study of migration or economic-demographic-social interrelations, Population Association of America
1988-89 NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Population Research Center, University of Chicago
1992 COR Research Award, Tulane University
2004 European Association of Labor Economics (EALE) Prize for the Best Paper Published in Labour Economics during the period 2002-2003
Membership
American Economic Association, Econometric Society,
Middle East Economic Association, Population Association of America, Turkish Economic Association
Contact
E-mail: itunali@ku.edu.tr
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