Mutlu Yuksel

Professor

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Email: Mutlu@Dal.Ca
Phone: 902-494-6767
Fax: 902-494-6917
Mailing Address: 
Department of Economics
Dalhousie University
6214 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Labour Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Health Economics

Selected Awards and Honours

  • 2014 W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant (with Mevlude Akbulut and Melanie Khamis)
  • Dalhousie University New Faculty Research Grant, 2012
  • CLSRN Conference, Travel Grant, June 2012
  • Canadian Economic Association Travel Grant, June 2011
  • IZA Research Visit Grant, May 2011.
  • Henry Graham Grant, 2005-2006
  • Graduate Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston, 2002-2007
  • Cullen Supplemental Fellowship, University of Houston, 2002-2004
  • Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2000-2002

Selected Publications

  • “Direct and Indirect Skill Selection: Permanent Visa Types and the Economic Wellbeing of Immigrants”, (with Lan Anh Tong and Cahit Guven, Deakin University), Forthcoming at Economic Record.
  • ““Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany”, (with Mevlude Akbulut and Dozie Okoye, Dalhousie University), Economic Inquiry, January 2020, 58(1): 184-208.
  • “Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants’ Economic and Social Integration Differentially?”, (with Mevlude Akbulut, Dalhousie University and Cahit Guven, Deakin University), Economic Record, September 2019,95(310): 279-300.
  • “Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes”, (with Mevlude Akbulut, Dalhousie University and Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University), Labour Economics,December 2017, 49: 145-161.
  • “Heterogeneity in the Long Term Effect of the Warfare,” (with Mevlude Akbulut, Dalhousie University), Economics and Human Biology, 2017, 27(A): 126-136.

Education

  • Ph.D. Economics, University of Houston, May 2007.
  • M.A. Economics, University of Houston, May 2004, Summa Cum Laude
  • M.A. Economics, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2002, Summa Cum Laude
  • B.S. Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2000