Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250633 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14972
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market conditions. This paper examines how this massive refugee influx affects native working-age children's school enrollment and employment outcomes using a difference-indifferences IV methodology. We find that employment of both boys and girls falls substantially, but a large fraction of this fall stems from the transition of children who used to combine school and work into school only. School enrollment increases only for boys, and this is stronger for boys with more educated parents. The incidence of being neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) increases among girls, particularly for those with less-educated parents, but not among boys. In fact, the NEET incidence drops for boys with more-educated parents.
Subjects: 
syrian refugees
school enrollment
employment
child work
education
NEET
Turkey
JEL: 
I25
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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