Şemsa Özar

Şemsa Özar
Native name Þemsa Özar
Nationality Turkish
Institution Boğaziçi University and the
International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
Field Feminist economics and development economics
Alma mater Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Austria
Awards International Policy Fellow, Open Society Institute

Şemsa Özar (Þemsa Özar) is a professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, Turkey[1] and past president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), her tenure was 2015 to 2016.[2]

Education

Özar gained her degree and masters from Boğaziçi University in Turkey in 1977 and 1978 respectively. Her post-graduate degree came from the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research, Vienna in 1988 and her PhD came from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Austria in 1990. Her PhD thesis title was: The Effects of the IMF-Supported Programs on Income Distribution: Turkey as a Case.[3]

Fellowships

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

  • Özar, Şemsa (2000), "Employment aspects of the informal sector in Istanbul: a field survey in low-income neighborhoods of Istanbul", in Bulutay, Tuncer, Informal sector II, Ankara: State Institute of Statistics (SIS), Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey, pp. 153–176.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Günlük-Şenesen, Gülay (2001), "Gender-based occupational segregation in the Turkish banking sector", in Çinar, E. Mine, The economics of women and work in the Middle East and North Africa, Amsterdam New York: JAI Press, pp. 247–267, ISBN 9780762307142.
  • Özar, Şemsa (2002), "An international comparative analysis of gender differences in employment", in Bulutay, Tuncer, Employment of women: 19 December 2000, Ankara: State Institute of Statistics (SIS), Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey, pp. 153–176, ISBN 9789751930569.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Ercan, Fuat (2002), "Labor markets in Turkey: maladjustment or integration?", in Balkan, Neşecan; Savran, Sungur, The ravages of neo-liberalism: economy, society, and gender in Turkey, Huntington, New York: Nova Science, pp. 165–179, ISBN 9781590332795.
  • Özar, Şemsa (2007), "The neo-liberal paradigm and small enterprises: accumulation by dispossession in the case of Turkey", in Köse, Ahmet H.; Şenses, Fikret; Yeldan, Erinç, Neoliberal globalization as new imperialism: case studies on reconstruction of the periphery, New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 245–258, ISBN 9781600216398.
  • Özar, Şemsa (2009), "Small and medium enterprises in the periphery: the case of Turkey", in Öniş, Ziya; Şenses, Fikret, Turkey and the global economy: neo-liberal restructuring and integration in the post-crisis era, London New York: Routledge, pp. 204–222, ISBN 9780415475617.

Journal articles

  • Özar, Şemsa (1994). "Some observations on the position of women in the labor market in the development process of Turkey". Boğaziçi Journal. Boğaziçi University. 8 (1–2): 21–43.
  • Özar, Şemsa (March 1996). "Employment in Turkey: the importance of the informal sector". FORUM.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Günlük-Şenesen, Gülay (1998). "Determinants of female (non-) participation in the urban labour force in Turkey". METU Studies in development (ODTU gelisme dergisi). Department of Economics Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey. 25 (2): 311–328.
  • Özar, Şemsa (2007). "Women's access to credit organizations: Turkey". Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures edited by Suad Joseph. BrillOnline: Brill Academic Publishers. 4: 20–21.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Özertan, Gökhan; İrfanoğlu, Z. Burcu (December 2008). "Micro and small enterprise growth in Turkey: under the shadow of financial crisis". The Developing Economies. Wiley Online. 46 (4): 331–362. doi:10.1111/j.1746-1049.2008.00069.x.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Özertan, Gökhan (2008). "Small enterprises and financial crisis in Turkey: a comparison with larger enterprises". Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics. Serials Publications. 8 (2): 193–203.
  • Özar, Şemsa; Yakut-Çakar, Burcu (November–December 2013). "Unfolding the invisibility of women without men in the case of Turkey". Women's Studies International Forum, special issue: Gendering Social Policy and Welfare State in Turkey. ScienceDirect. 41 (1): 24–34. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.03.010.

Papers

  • “A Study on the Debt and Default Behavior of Turkish Micro & Small Enterprises (MSE’s)” (with Nurhan Davutyan), Selected Papers from the Thirteenth Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum (ERF), Cairo, 2006, pp. 331–354.
  • Özar, Şemsa (2007). "Micro and small enterprises in Turkey: uneasy development". Economic Research Report Series, Project on "Promoting Competitiveness in Micro and Small Enterprises in the MENA Region". Istanbul, Turkey: ERF – Economic Research Forum: financed by the European Union and the International Development Research Center, Canada. 0420. OCLC 320182498. Pdf paper.
See also: Özar, Şemsa (December 2007). "Women entrepreneurs in Turkey: obstacles, potentials and future prospects". Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis GERPA. Tunis, Tunisia: CAWTAR: Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research. Pdf version.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Şemsa ÖZAR, Professor". Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "2016-17 Officers". International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Şemsa Özar: CV" (PDF). Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "International Policy Fellowships Full Fellows List Semsa Ozar". Open Society Institute. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
Non-profit organisation positions
Preceded by
Alicia Girón		 President of the International Association for Feminist Economics
2015–2016		 Succeeded by
Joyce Jacobsen
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