Working Papers and Work in Progress

• “Female Employment, Structural Transformation, and Endogenous Sorting” [2025] (submitted).  
• “Determinants of Matching Efficiency: Evidence from a Developing Country” [2025] (with M.G. Chadwick)
• “Firm Networks and Female Employment” [2025] (with U. Akovali and B. Gurcihan)
• “Effects of the Age Composition of the Labor Force on Labor Market Outcomes” [2023] 
• “Within Firm Wage Inequality and Firms’ Financial Decisions” (with O. Akin and P. Sumer).
• “Compensation Structure and Team Performance” (with B. Altan).
• “Minimum Wage and Firm Wage Dispersion” (with U. Aytun and S. M. Cilasun).

Publications

• “Unpacking the Link between Service Sector and Female Employment: Cross-Country Evidence“, Economica, 2026, 1-17 (with S. Coskun).
• “Unemployment Flows, Participation, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: Evidence from Turkey”, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2020, 64 (with M. Tasci).
• “Learning about match quality: Information flows and labor market outcomes”, Labour Economics, 2017, 46. 
• “Effect of labor market policies on unemployment when firms adapt their recruitment”, Economic Modelling, 2017, 60. [Previously circulated as “Search by Firms and Labor Market Policies“]
• “Nowcasting Unemployment Rate in Turkey: Let’s Ask Google”, Central Bank Review, 2015, 15(3) (with M. G. Chadwick) 
• “Ins and Outs of Unemployment in Turkey”, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2014, 50(3).
• “Türkiye’de Emek Piyasasının Çevrimsel Hareketinin Cinsiyet Bazında Analizi (Analyzing the Cyclical Properties of Turkish Labor Market by Gender)”, TISK Akademi, 2014, 9(16) (with Y. S. Baskaya)
• “A Quest for the Leading Indicators of of the Turkish Unemployment Rate”, Central Bank Review, 2014, 14(1) (with B. Gurcihan and A. Yavuz) 
• “Increasing Share of Agriculture in Employment in the Time of Crises: Puzzle or Not?”, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2011, 7(3) (with M. Ungor)