Recent Research

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Recent publications

Identifying the regional drivers of influenza-like illness in Nova Scotia, Canada, with dominance analysis. 2023 Nature, Scientific Reports.
Speeding up for a son in Turkey. 2022 Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
Speeding Up for a Son among Immigrants in Canada 2022 Population Research and Policy Review.
Why does field of study–occupation mismatch have no effect on wages in Turkish labour markets? 2021 Applied Economics.
Asymmetric Information and the Discount on Foreign-Acquired Degrees in Canada, 2020 IZA Journal of Development and Migration.
Assortative Preferences in Choice of Major IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2020.
Is the lower return to immigrants’ foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?, 2017 IZA Journal of Migration.
The cost of immigrants’ occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada, 2016 IZA Journal of Migration.

Working papers

Identifying the regional drivers of influenza-like illness in Nova Scotia with dominance analysis, (with Jan Ditzen) 12/2022.
Native-born-immigrant wage gap revisited: The role of market imperfections in Canada, Canadian Labour Economics Forum, WP#50, 12/2022
Dynamics of Social Mobility during the COVID19 Pandemic in Canada, (M.Yuksel and F.Begolli). IZA Discussion Papers, 13376. 06/2020.

Work in progress

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Causal Discovery of Cancer with Sparsity – SSHRC/RDC application is accepted.
Understanding Commmunity-Level Vulnerabilities in Lyme Disease - Nova Scotia - Obtaining the data from NSHA
Understanding the dynamics of a viral spread by sparse composite likelihood selection - Draft paper is ready
Mobility and COVID-19 Spread: Solving the Puzzle.
Predicting Respiratory Diseases by using 811 data in Nova Scotia - Obtaining the data from NSHA