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Abdurrahman B. Aydemir

Sabanci University, Turkey, and IZA@LISER, Luxembourg

World of Labour 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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