Ali Tasiran
Position
Principal Research Officer (Statistics)
Qualifications
- Professor in Labour Economics Växjö (2007)
- Professor in Statistics Ankara (2007)
- Professor in Statistics London (2004)
- Senior Lecturer in Statistics Göteborg (2000)
- Associate Professor in Economics Göteborg (1998)
- PhD in Econometrics Göteborg (1993)
- MSc in Economics Örebro (1987)
- BSc in Statistics Örebro (1986)
Background/Career
Having a military background as a qualified officer
from Military Air College in Turkey, 1970-71, Ali was in prison until
1974. After his release by a general amnesty, he worked at the trade
unions for civil servants, miners and metal workers between 1974 and
1980. He immigrated to Sweden as a political refugee in 1981 after the
third military coup in 1980.
He received two
awards during his university studies and also received Albert Wallin's
‘Best Book of the Year’ Award for his book published by North-Holland
from The Swedish Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He worked
at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan during
1991-92 and 1996-97. Between 1997 and 2002, he worked as an Honorary
Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff. Since 2001
he has also worked at the School of Economics, Mathematics and
Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London as a visiting
scholar and part-time teacher.
He employs
statistical methods such as Panel and Transition data models in his
research using Swedish, American, British and Turkish data sets. Since
1991, he taught statistics and econometrics to undergraduate, master
and graduate students in Statistics, Economics, Sociology and Social
Sciences in Sweden, US, UK, Turkey and South Africa.
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Research interests
He is an applied statistician and an economist. In his research he
employs statistical tools in economic issues for working people.
"Working people" has been the main focus of his research since the
1980s, covering topics such as: fertility of Swedish, American, Turkish
and Kurdish women; economic circumstances of single mothers,
unemployed, early retired and welfare dependent people, and seafarers;
occupational health and injury problems; highly active antiretroviral
treatment of HIV-AIDS people in Cape Town; the social consequences of
arms trade in the world. He has a strong commitment to the welfare of
working people and studies determinants, dynamics and consequences of
working peoples’ economic-social problems. He is currently working on
Institute research projects on productivity and flexibility,
Privatisation of Public Sectors after Privatisation PIQUE and
Undocumented Workers in Transition UWT.
Contact details
a.tasiran@mdx.ac.uk
Publications
Books
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2007 " The impact of employee representation upon workplace industrial relations outcomes" With Sian Moore, Steve Jefferys, Department of Trade and Industry, United Kingdom, Employment Relations Research Series.
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2006 " Labour Market Flexibility and Sectoral Productivity: A Comparative Study" With
Jeremy Anderson, John Grahl, Steve Jefferys, Department of Trade and
Industry, United Kingdom, Employment Relations Research Series No. 66,
35 pages.
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2005 "The role and effectiveness of safety representatives in influencing workplace health and safety" With
David Walters, Theo Nichols, Judith Connor and Surhan Cam, Prepared by
Cardiff University for the Health and Safety Executive 2005. HSE Books,
Research Report 363, ISBN 0717661369
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2002 "Crewing the International Merchant Fleet"
With Tony Lane, Bin Wu, and Bernardo Obando-Rojas. Lloyds Register-Fairplay, London, 100 pages.
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1995
"Fertility Dynamics: Spacing and Timing of Births in Sweden and the
United States". (With a foreword by T. Paul Schultz) In Contributions
to Economic Analysis Series, North-Holland Publishing Company. Number
229, 329 pages.
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1993 "Wage and Income Effects on the Timing and Spacing of Births in Sweden
and the United States". Memorandum no 35, Göteborg, (Ph.D. thesis in Econometrics), 300 pages.
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Selected Chapters
Selected Chapters
- 2002 "Econometric Analysis of Fertility Dynamics in Turkey"The
Proceedings of the Economic Research Forum’s Conference on Population
Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards the 21st Century,
in Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East, Ismail Sirageldin
(Ed.), ISBN 1860647952, 161-189, I. B. Tauris.
- 2001 "What determines work resumption from long sickness spells? - An analysis of six countries"
In Erik Schokkaert (Ed.) Ethics and Social Security Reform (2001),
Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS), Social Policy
Research Unit, University of York, UK. The paper was presented at the Meeting
of Issues in Social Security in Sigtuna, Sweden, 34 pages, 17-20 June 2000. Co-author: Ed Palmer
- 1997 "Single Parent Families and Social Security - The Case of Sweden". In Philip R. Jong and Theodore R. Marmor (Eds), Social Policy and the
Labour Market, 285-306, Aldershot, Ashgate. Co-authors: Björn Gustafsson, Håkan Nyman.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
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2007 "Trade Unions, Institutional Mediation and Industrial Safety: Evidence from the UK".
Co-authors: Theo Nichols and David Walters. The Journal of Industrial
Relations, ISSN 0022-1856, 49(2), pp. 211-225, April 2007.
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2007 " Early Labour Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden". Co-author: Kerem Tezic. The Applied Economics, Volume 39, pp. 809-824, 23 March 2007, DOI 10.1080/00036840500461915.
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2006 " Parental Income and Continuing Education of Second-generation
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Immigrants in Sweden". Co-author: Kerem
Tezic, Department of Economics, Göteborg University, in the
International Review of Applied Economics 2006, Vol. 20 No. 4,
pp.491-514.
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2005 " The demand for arms imports".
Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 42, Issue No: 2 pp. 167-181 (March
2005). Co-author: Ron Smith, Birkbeck College, University of London.
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2003 "Signs of change in Turkey’s working-class: worker’s age-related
perceptions in the modern manufacturing sector". British Journal of
Sociology, Vol. 54, Issue No. 4 (December 2003), pp.527-545.
Co-authors: Theo Nichols and Nadir Sugur, Department of Social
Sciences, Cardiff University.
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2003 "Muhacir Bulgarian Workers in Turkey: Their Relation to Management and Fellow workers in the Formal Employment Sector".
Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 39, Issue No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 37-54.
Co-authors: Theo Nichols, Nadir Sugur and Serap Sugur, Department of
Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
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2002 "A Reply to Walker’s Note: ‘A Comment on Tasiran’s Wages and
Income Effects on the Timing and Spacing of Births in Sweden and in the
United States’". Journal of Population Economics, 15 (2002) 4, pp.
783-796.
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2000 "Local authority family centre intervention: A statistical
exploration of services as family support or family control", Child and
Family Social Work, Blackwell Science, Vol. 5, No. 2. May (2000),
129-141. Co-author: Andrew Pithouse.
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1997 "Climbing up Career Steps: Becoming a Professor in Economics".
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 99, No. 3, 471-484 (1997). Co-authors: Ann Veiderpass, Bo Sandelin.
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1994 "Wages in Sweden Since World War II - Gender and age specific
salaries in wholesale and retail trade", Scandinavian Journal of
Economic History, Vol. XLII, No:1, 77-100, (1994). Co-author: Björn
Gustafsson.
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Selected Recent Conference Papers
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2007 "Estimating Arms Imports"
at the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Economics and
Security 5th to 7th July 2007, Burwalls Centre, University of Bristol,
Clifton, Bristol .
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2007 "Employment and Skills
in the Turkish Manufacturing: A Study on the Role of Technological
Change and Trade" with Erdogan Bakir at the Workshop and Conference on
Turkey and the EU: Work, Employment and Trade Unions, Ankara, 31 May -
1 June 2007, by Economic Research Center (ERC) and Working Lives
Research Institute (WLRI).
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2007 "The determinants of
perceived health and labour force participation of people with HIV/AIDS
in Khayelitsha, South Africa" at the Department of Economics,
University of West England, on 22 February 2007.
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2007 "The determinants of
perceived health and labour force participation of people with HIV/AIDS
in Khayelitsha, South Africa" at the Department of Economics,
University of Växjö, on 25 January 2007.
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2003 "Parental Income and
Continuing Education of Second-generation Immigrants in Sweden". (with
Kerem Tezic, Department of Economics, Göteborg University). The
Economics of Conflicts and Co-operation in the Middle East and North
Africa Region, Second European Conference of the Middle East Economic
Association (MEEA) in co-operation with the Centre for Economics and
Ethics (C3ED) at the University of Versailles, Paris in 2-3 June 2003.
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2003 "Early Labour Market
Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden", With Kerem
Tezic. Economic Research Center (ERC) Lectures, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey on April 14, 2003.
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2002 "Permanent and
Transitory Components of Fertility Dynamics in Turkey". (with Insan
Tunali, Koc University, Istanbul). Population Association of America
2002 Annual Meeting Program, Atlanta, Georgia, May 9-11, 2002
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