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Semih Tumen
Semih Tumen
Research Fellow
Amazon
semihtumen@gmail.com External Homepage CV

Semih Tumen is a Senior Manager (Economics) at Amazon. He held faculty positions as a Professor of Economics at TED University and Louisiana State University. He also served as a Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy Committee Member, Head of Structural Economic Research, and Economist at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics, and BSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University.

His research concentrates on Labor Economics with a special focus on job search, human capital/education, migration/refugees, and social interactions & networks. His current research delves into the education, labor market, and product market consequences of forced displacement. He has also worked on topics including labor productivity, active labor market policies, vocational education/training, compulsory military service, informal employment, minimum wages, inequality, entrepreneurship, neighborhood formation, social interactions/networks, returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and subjective well-being.

His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Population Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Economic Inequality, Economics Letters, International Journal of Manpower, Empirical Economics, The Economics of Transition, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Housing Economics, The World Economy, International Journal of Economic Theory, Industrial Relations, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Energy Economics, Food Policy, Demographic Research, Social Indicators Research, Singapore Economic Review, Economic Modelling, Labour, and other journals.

He is the recipient of the 2017 Kuznets Prize.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2015.





IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10324
Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy
Semih Tumen
published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10203
The Empirical Content of Season-of-Birth Effects: An Investigation with Turkish Data
Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 37, 1825-1860
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10116
Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
Semih Tumen
published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10004
The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 16-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9993
Evaluating the Impact of the Post-2008 Employment Subsidy Program in Turkey
Binnur Balkan, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9642
Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9573
Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?
Semih Tumen
published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9505
Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction
Semih Tumen, Tugba Zeydanli
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37(3), 426-455
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9473
A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Semih Tumen
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9455
Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen
published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266
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