Welcome to my website, I am a researcher of BETAM  at Bahçeşehir University. I am currently working on a report about women's access to employment in Istanbul. The report benefits from a custom household survey representative of all the districts of Istanbul. A mini time-use survey and a recall module about work arrangements before and after marriage offer quite a unique picture regarding women's constraints when accessing the labour market.

Previously I was involved in the 2023 earthquake response which included an inmediate assessment regarding the impact of the February 2023 earthquakes on the labour market of the affected areas. Later, thanks to a project funded by the FCDO I was able to measure the empirical relationship between hours of work lost and the damage inflicted by the earthquake using administrative data and results from a household survey carried out in the area.  

Other work in Türkiye includes a follow up of the pandemic, with the latest update containing the impact of the anti-COVID19 measures on hours worked during 2021 at the national, regional and sectoral level thanks to a nowcasting model based on Google mobility data. This report was part of a series of research briefs focused on the pandemic effects. Other briefs contained initial ILO estimates on employment losses in Turkey (December update), on the impact on hours worked (January update) and on the impact of the second wave on hours worked (March update). 

My work in Türkiye also covered the preparation of a report for the ILO on the working conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey. The methodology I developed to identify refugees in the microdata was published in the IZA Journal of Development and Migration while the analysis on Syrian refugees' working conditions can be found here.

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