The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) is delighted to present you its new blog entry:
'How migrants' social remittances have empowered women in Turkey?'
by ªule Akkoyunlu
http://debatemigration.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/how-migrants-social-remittances-have-empowered-women-in-turkey/
Migration not only contributes to development through financial remittances, but also through flows of knowledge and through the diffusion of social, cultural and political norms and values. This blog post presents the results of an EUI/RSCAS working paper (http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/28360/RSCAS_2013_77.pdf?sequence=1) which addresses the effect of migration on women's empowerment in Turkey. The number of women in parliament in Turkey is chosen as a gauge of women's empowerment and is explained by the emigration rate, the relative education of women to men, and a measure of democracy. The results of bounds testing gives clear-cut evidence that women's empowerment, the share of women in parliament in the present context, is related to the emigration rate, the relative education of women and to a measure of democracy - with the largest effect in European and core OECD countries. The results are robust to the inclusion of asylum seekers and refugees in the emigration data.
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