Ozcan, Berkay
Dr Berkay Ozcan
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Experience keywords:
entrepreneurship; labour market; family demography; wealth and income inequality; quantitative methods; gender
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The overarching objective of my research is to elucidate how family processes (divorce, marriage, and fertility) influence social stratification in interaction with changing social policies. To that end, my research examines the interplay between family processes and economic outcomes (income inequality, wealth/savings, labour supply, entrepreneurship). These outcomes are less commonly studied by demographers and sociologists than by economists whose standard models adopt the stylised individual as their unit of analysis. In contrast, I aim to bring a sociological perspective by incorporating family as a crucial social structure.
In my research, processes that shape family contexts over the life-course and especially macro-structural forces constitute a focal point for explaining both the economic behaviour of households and overall inequality. This perspective guided my research, which addresses three broad questions: 1. How do family processes contribute to overall wealth accumulation and wealth inequality? 2. How do family processes influence labour supply and entrepreneurial behaviour? 3. How do macro-structural factors (e.g. unemployment, migration) affect family context?
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Consultancy; Policy and Regulatory Bodies; Public Administration
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
EU; USA; Turkey
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Languages: Turkish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Catalan [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Liao, Tim F. and Özcan, Berkay (2013) Family forms among first and second generation immigrants in metropolitan America, 1960-2009. In: Fong, Eric and Chiang, Lan-Hung Nora and Denton, Nancy, (eds.) Immigrant adaptation in multi-ethnic societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States. Routledge. ISBN 9780415628549 Özcan, Berkay and Breen, Richard (2012) Marital instability and female labor supply. Annual review of sociology, 38 pp. 463-481. ISSN 0360-0572 Bargain, Olivier and González, Libertad and Keane, Claire and Özcan, Berkay (2012) Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland. European economic review, 56 (8). pp. 1675-1691. ISSN 0014-2921
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