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Abdurrahman B. Aydemir

Sabanci University, Turkey, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Topic spokesperson

Expertise

Economics of immigration, Immigration policy, Education, Intergenerational mobility within the North American and European context

Country

Turkey

Languages

Turkish - Native speaker, English - Non-native speaker

Media experience

Print, Radio

Email

aaydemir@sabanciuniv.edu

Phone

90 2164839344

Current position

Professor of Economics, Sabanci University, Turkey

Website

http://bit.ly/Aydemir_IZApage

Past positions

Senior Economist, Statistics Canada

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2003

Selected publications

  • “Intergenerational Mobility in Educational Attainment among the Children of Canadian Immigrants.” Canadian Public Policy XXXIX (2013): 107-122 (with M. Corak and W.-H. Chen).

  • “Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 79:6 (2017): 1046-1086 (with M. Kırdar).

  • “Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition.“ European Economic Review 98 (2017): 282–315 (with M. Kırdar).

  • “Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development.”European Economic Review 116 (2019): 160–185 (with H. Yazıcı).

  • “The Effect of Education on Internal Migration of Young Men and Women: Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration.” Labour Economics 74 (2022): 102098 (with M. Kırdar and H. Torun).

article(s)

  • Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance Updated

    Benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic integration policies

    Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, June 2020
    There is increasing global competition for high-skilled immigrants, as countries intensify efforts to attract a larger share of the world's talent pool. In this environment, high-skill immigrants are becoming increasingly selective in their choices between alternative destinations. Studies for major immigrant-receiving countries that provide evidence on the comparative economic performance of immigrant classes (skill-, kinship-, and humanitarian-based) show that skill-based immigrants perform better in the labor market. However, there are serious challenges to their economic integration, which highlights a need for complementary immigration and integration policies.
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