From Guest to Second Class Workers: Wage Discrimination among Syrian and Turkish Workers

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 97 - 118, 01.12.2019

Mustafa Kahveci

https://doi.org/10.25229/beta.551359

Cited By: 1

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.

Keywords

Wage discrimantion, human capital theory, migration, Syrian’s wage

Misafirlikten İkinci Sınıf İşçiliğe: Türkiyeli ve Suriyeli İşçiler Arasında Ücret Ayrımcılığı

Abstract

Göçmenlerin emek piyasalarına dâhil olurken ücretlerin düşük, esnekliğin en yoğun ve kalifiye eleman ihtiyacının en az olduğu emek-yoğun sektörlere yönelmek zorunda kaldıkları açıktır. Suriye’deki iç savaşı takiben, sayıları bugün 3 milyona varan Suriyeli sığınmacı hareketinin tabii sonuçlarından biri olarak Türkiye emek piyasasına önemli oranda göçmen emek girişi yaşandığını söylemek mümkündür. Bu çalışma, nicel olarak en fazla Suriyeli sığınmacı barındıran İstanbul ölçeğinde, enformelliğin en yaygın olduğu, emek yoğun ve düşük ücrete dayanan bir emek piyasası kompozisyonuna sahip tekstil sektöründeki Türkiyeli ve Suriyeli göçmen işçiler arasındaki ücret ayrımcılığını konu edinmiştir. Bu bağlamda çalışma, Suriyeli sığınmacıların İstanbul ölçeğinde tekstil sektöründe emek piyasasına eklemlenmelerinin ardından sektördeki ücret ayrımcılığının muhtemel sebeplerini de analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Keywords

Ücret ayrımcılığı, beşeri sermaye kuramı, göç, Suriyelilerin ücretleri

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