Nur Bilge, PhD Candidate at the University of Lille, as a Speaker at the Warsaw Economic Seminars

Nur Bilge, a PhD candidate at the University of Lille, specializes in migration economics, labor economics, family economics, political economy and applied econometrics. On March 27, 2025, at 17:00 Nur Bilge will present her study titled „The Internal Migration Response to Rising Refugees and Migrants in Turkey”. This presentation is part of the Warsaw Economic Seminars series.

We invite you to attend the lecture at the Faculty of Economic Sciences (Room A203) or remotely via the Zoom platform.

For more information on the speaker’s research activities, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/nurbilge/home.

Link to the meeting: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/93278126659?pwd=HAlBLR5bz9uqFroMDWLPnPF02vgqWi.1

[Meeting ID: 932 7812 6659
Passcode: 014067]

Below, we present the abstract of the presentation.

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This paper examines the impact of international migration to Turkey on internal migration, with a focus on racially motivated causes. We uncover heterogeneity among immigrants based on their nationality. Using a detailed dataset on bilateral migration flows from 2014 to 2022, our findings indicate that an increase in the share of foreigners in the origin province has a negative effect on internal migration for all residents of Turkey. Whereas a negative effect appears when looking at the effect of foreigner share in origin on internal migration of Turkish people. Extending our analysis to asymmetric effects shows that there is a larger impact of the foreigner share in destination observed in provinces with low internal mobility. Moreover, we control overall satisfaction with public services, people from well-serviced provinces are less likely to migrate to provinces as a result of an increasing foreigner shares.