Abstract:

It is clear that immigrants are inclined in the labour markets while they are forced to turn to the labour-hard sectors where wages are low, flexibility and qualified elements are needed. After the Civil War in Syria, it is possible to say that a significant percentage of immigrant labour has entered the Turkish labour market as one of the obvious consequences of the Syrian refugee movement, which reaches the numbers today to 3 million. This study discussed the wage discrimination between Turkish and Syrian immigrant workers in the textile sector with a work-intense and low-wage labour market composition, which is informal, in the Istanbul scale, which is quantitatively many Syrian refugees, and the wage discrimination between Turkish and Syrian immigrant workers. In this context, the study also aims to analyze the possible causes of wage discrimination in the sector after Syrian refugees were added to the labour market in the textile sector on the Istanbul scale.

Abstract:

It is clear that immigrants, when participating in labor markets, are forced to turn towards labor-intensive sectors where wages are low, flexibility is the most intensive, and demand for skilled workers is the least. It can be said that the Turkish labor market has experienced a significant immigrant labor input mostly due to the movement of Syrian refugees, with a number of some 3 million today, following the civil war in Syria. Based on Istanbul, Turkey’s quantitatively most Syrian refugee-receiving city, this study examines the wage discrimination between native workers and Syrian immigrant workers in the textile sector having a composition of labour intensive, low-wage, and where informality is most common. In this context, the study aims to analyze the wage gap on the textile labor market, and also to examine the possible causes of the wage discrimination in the sector.

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