- Yaman, F., Cubí-Mollá, P. and Ungureanu, S. (2023). Which Decision Theory Describes Life Satisfaction Best? Evidence from Annual Panel Data. Journal of Happiness Studies. doi:10.1007/s10902-023-00627-5.
- Yaman, F. and Offiaeli, K. (2022). Is the price elasticity of demand asymmetric? Evidence from public transport demand. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 203, pp. 318–335. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.09.005.
- Yaman, F., Cubi-Molla, P. and Plagnol, A.C. (2022). Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time. Migration Studies, 10(4), pp. 670–702. doi:10.1093/migration/mnac034.
- Offiaeli, K. and Yaman, F. (2021). Social norms as a cost-effective measure of managing transport demand: Evidence from an experiment on the London underground. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 145, pp. 63–80. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2020.12.006.
- Yaman, F. (2019). STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION OF LABOR ADJUSTMENT COSTS WITH TEMPORALLY DISAGGREGATED DATA. Economic Inquiry, 57(4), pp. 1939–1962. doi:10.1111/ecin.12804.
- Taşkın, A.A. and Yaman, F. (2019). Does Homeownership Prolong the Duration of Unemployment? Real Estate Economics, 47(3), pp. 845–883. doi:10.1111/1540-6229.12173.
- Yaman, F., Cubi-Molla, P. and Ungureanu, S. (2017). Can Behavioural Economics Be Applied To Life Satisfaction?: Evidence From Annual Panel Data. Journal of Happiness Studies.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2016). Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 131, pp. 151–165. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2016.08.012.
- Taskin, A.A. and Yaman, F. (2016). Homeownership and Unemployment Duration. .
- Yaman, F. (2014). Ethnic externalities in education and second-generation immigrants. Applied Economics, 46(34), pp. 4205–4217. doi:10.1080/00036846.2014.952893.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2013). Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants’ Integration?
Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach. Review of International Economics, 21(2), pp. 311–325. doi:10.1111/roie.12038.
Dr Firat Yaman
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About
Overview
Dr Firat Yaman joined the Department of Economics at City University London in 2011. He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Economics.
Qualifications
- PhD in Economics, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Employment
- Research Fellow, IAB Nuremberg, Jul 2009 – Jul 2010
Teaching
Postgraduate
Quantitative Methods for Business Economics;
Applied Econometric and Psychological Research Methods;
Undergraduate
Labour Economics;
Applied Econometrics;
Dissertation Supervision
Research
Research interests
Firat primarily works with micro-data in the field of labour economics. He does both structural and reduced-form estimation.
Current research topics
Dynamic discrete choice models;
Estimating labour adjustment costs with employment flow data;
Language acquisition of immigrants in enclaves;
Relationship between unemployment duration and home ownership;
Identifying threshold shifts in ordered choice models
Methods
Statistical and Mathematical Software (Stata, Matlab, Octave);
Programming (Fortran);
Parallel Computing (Matlab, Fortran Open MPI)
Invited Seminars
2014: University of Bielefeld; 2011: Koc University, Bilkent University, TOBB - ETU University; ZEW Mannheim; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; 2010: Berlin Network for Labor Market Research; 2009: Royal Holloway University of London;
Conference Presentations
2014: European Economic Association (Toulouse), European Society for Population Economics (Braga); 2013: Royal Economic Society (London); 2010: European Society for Population Economics (Essen), TOM - Frontiers of Migration Research Workshop (Bamberg); 2008: RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics (Essen); Macroeconomic Research Meeting (Bonn);
Other Relevant Information
Refereeing: Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Papers in Regional Science
Publications
Publications by category
Journal articles (11)
Reports (5)
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2011). Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany. London, UK: City, University of London.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2010). Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants : quasi-experimental evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany (Ethnische Konzentration und Sprachkompetenz von Einwanderern : quasi-experimentelle Befunde aus der Gastarbeiteranwerbung in Deutschland). Nurnberg, Germany: IAB.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2010). Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany. Berlin, Germany: DIW Berlin.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany. Bonn, Germany: IZA Insitute of Labor Economics.
- Yaman, F. and Cubí‐Mollá, P. A fixed effects ordered choice model with flexible thresholds with an application to life-satisfaction. London: City University London.
Scholarly editions (6)
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2013). Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants’ integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2012). Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. (2012). Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach.
- Yaman, F. (2011). Ethnic externalities and 2nd generation immigrants.
- Yaman, F. (2011). The costs of adjusting labor: Evidence from temporally disaggregated data.
- Danzer, A.M. and Yaman, F. Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach.
Working papers (3)
- Yaman, F., Cubí-Mollá, P. and Ungureanu, S. (2023). Which Decision Theory Describes Life Satisfaction Best? Evidence from Annual Panel Data.
- Offiaeli, K. and Yaman, F. (2021). Social norms as a cost-effective measure of managing transport demand: Evidence from an experiment on the London underground.
- Taskin, A.A. and Yaman, F. (2019). Credit Supply, Homeownership and Mortgage Debt. London, UK: Department of Economics, City, University of London.