Browsing by Author "Akdede, Sacit Hadi"

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Cultural Diversity, Domestic Political Violence and Public Expenditures
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008) Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Hwang, Jinyoung; Can, Emre
This study investigates the relationship between cultural diversity, political violence and public expenditures. Using a cross-section of cultural diversity indices, it is empirically examined whether cultural diversity caused or intensified political violence in the 1980s and 1990s. It is found that economic factors were statistically significant in the intensity of the violence in the 1980s, whereas political and cultural factors were significant in the 1990s. In addition, ethnic diversity took a significant role in both starting the violence and the intensity of it in the 1990s.
Death as a Measure of Duration of Conflict
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009) Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Oğuş Binatlı, Ayla
This paper introduces a new measure of conflict duration and argues that the number of deaths in a conflict can serve as such a measure. The paper demonstrates that there are information gains to this approach. The well-known conflict database of the International Peace Research Institute is compared with the database of the Center for Systemic Peace, which includes data on the number of deaths in addition to length of conflict. The number and distribution of conflicts vary; however, duration analysis based on the conventional measure of duration yields results that are robust over the above-mentioned datasets. We also show that the number of deaths, as a measure of duration, challenges some of the results based on the number of years as a measure of duration. In the 1990s, the duration of conflicts is significantly different from before when the duration measure is the number of years - we do not find a statistically significant distinction when the number of deaths is used. Ethnic conflicts have a longer survival time in terms of time but not in terms of number of fatalities.
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Income Inequality and Voter Fractionalisation: an Empirical Study of 16 Multi-Party European Democracies
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Akdede, Sacit Hadi
This article empirically investigates relationships between voter fractionalisation and economic inequality, measured by the Gini coefficient of income inequality and a new index of fractionalisation developed for this study. Our main findings are as follows. States with high income inequality have less voter fractionalisation. States with higher GDP per capita have more voter fractionalisation. States with high election thresholds for parliamentary representation have less voter fractionalisation. Eastern European states and states with high unemployment rates have more voter fractionalisation. States with greater ethnic fractionalisation have less voter fractionalisation. Fractionalisation has been greater in recent decades (2000s and 1990s) than earlier decades (1980s).
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Increasing Returns To Information and Survival of Istanbul Public Theatre Plays
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007) Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Oğuş Binatlı, Ayla
In this article, we analyse the size and rank relationship for two administratively different public theatres, city and state, in Istanbul along with survival probabilities. We find returns to information for Istanbul public theatre plays. We present a comparison of our findings with related literature on Turkish state plays and Broadway shows. We find that the number of performances exhibits a lot less variation in centralized systems. Duration analysis reveals that run length of state theatres is larger than city theatres. This is an indication of greater accountability of city theatres as compared to state theatres.
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Increasing Returns To Information and the Survival of Turkish Public Theatre Plays
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2006) Akdede, Sacit Hadi; Oğuş Binatlı, Ayla
This paper investigates increasing returns to information and the survival of Turkish public theatre productions. Log size and rank relationship is found to display autocorrelated growth in a sample of 556 plays put on stage in the Turkish public theatre system in 12 different cities between 1998 and 2003. The lifetime of plays is also investigated and the features of plays are found not to matter for duration which can be explained by the non-profit nature of public theatre. However, the lifetimes of plays in more developed cities are longer than in less developed cities. In contrast to Broadway shows, the hazard function for Turkish public theatre plays is increasing in the number of performances.
OECD Ülkelerinde Dijitalleşmenin Finans Sektörü İstihdamı Üzerindeki Etkisi
(2025) Topçu, Nilay; Esen, Oğuz; Binatlı, Ayla Oğuş; Akdede, Sacit Hadi
Bu çalışma, 2010–2023 yılları arasında OECD ülkelerinde finansal dijitalleşme ve bankacılık altyapısının finans sektöründeki istihdam üzerindeki etkilerini cinsiyet boyutuyla incelemektedir. 25 ülkeden oluşan dengeli panel veri setinde, kadın ve erkek istihdamı ayrı ayrı ele alınmış ve üç ana belirleyici grubu dikkate alınmıştır: geleneksel bankacılık altyapısı (ATM ve şube yoğunluğu), dijitalleşme göstergeleri (mobil abonelikler, internet kullanım oranı ve güvenli sunucular) ve makroekonomik koşullar (kişi başına GSYH, enflasyon ve işsizlik). Öncelikle tanımlayıcı istatistikler ve korelasyon analizleri yapılmış, ardından panel birim kök ve yatay kesit bağımlılığı testleri uygulanarak metodolojik sağlamlık sağlanmıştır. Bulgular, mobil penetrasyonun kadın istihdamı ile pozitif, erkek istihdamı ile negatif ilişkilendiğini ortaya koymaktadır; bu durum dijital kanalların genişlemesinin kadınlara yeni fırsatlar sunduğunu göstermektedir. Buna karşılık güvenli sunucu yoğunluğu, teknoloji yoğun işlerde erkeklerin ağırlığını yansıtarak erkek istihdamı ile daha güçlü ilişkilidir. ATM yoğunluğu istihdam üzerinde sınırlı ama olumlu bir etkiye sahipken, şube yoğunluğunun etkisi zayıf ve istatistiksel olarak anlamlı değildir. İşsizlik tüm modellerde istihdamı azaltmakta, bu etki kadınlar için daha belirgin olmaktadır. Bulgular, dijitalleşmenin cinsiyet açısından nötr olmadığını, sektör içinde fırsatları yeniden dağıttığını göstermektedir. Politika açısından, yeniden beceri kazandırma programlarının desteklenmesi, dijital yetkinliklerin güçlendirilmesi ve kapsayıcı iş gücü stratejilerinin geliştirilmesi önem arz etmektedir.
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Part 2: Micro-Economic Approach To Cultural Analysis the Social Status of Migrants in Turkey
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2014) Oğuş Binatlı, Ayla; Akdede, Sacit Hadi
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social status of migrants in a culturally liberal and historically cosmopolitan port city in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach - A novel data set from the Izmir Labor Market Household Survey is used. Social status is measured by occupational status, wages, and education. In addition, parents' education, as well as, duration of unemployment for migrants is analyzed. Occupational status and education analyzes are based on ordered probit models. The probability that an individual with given characteristics will have an uneducated parent is estimated with a probit model. Weibull duration model is employed for the unemployment duration. Findings - Migrants in Izmir are likely to have occupations that claim a lower status. Migrants have higher wages so migrants are taking jobs of lower status but higher pay. The probability of exiting unemployment for migrants is higher, that is the duration of unemployment for migrants is shorter. Male have higher education levels and receive higher wages. Parents' education for migrants is lower in general. Female migrants have lower education levels than natives, male or female, and do not receive higher wages than female natives in the labor market. The paper concludes that the social status of migrant women is definitely lower than natives, male or female, and male migrants. Evidence on the social status of migrant men also points to a disadvantage as even though the male migrant is more educated on average, he is likely to hold an occupation of lower status. Originality/value - This paper employs a novel data set to investigate the social status of migrants vs natives. In addition, it undertakes a multi-dimensional econometric analyses of social status. Unemployment has not been included in econometric analysis of social status before.