Testing the Hypothesis of the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Türkiye Case

The labor market adaptation of foreign-born individuals in Türkiye is examined in this research. It tests the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis for Türkiye with this aim. The primary research question of this work is, " In Türkiye, could foreign-born people improve their labor market outcomes more rapidly than native people?" Thus, this paper's goals include determining the wage disparity between native-born workers and immigrants and the takeover point. TurkStat's Household Labour Force Surveys, conducted between 2009 and 2020, are used for this purpose. First, the logistic regression method assesses the disparities between labor force participation and employment rates of natives and immigrants. Then, the ordinary least squares method assesses the wage disparity between native-borns and foreign-borns. The main results of this approach are that immigrants' earnings are equalized in 20-25 years after migration, which is also the takeover point against natives. This investigation shows that the wage penalty for recent immigrants is 20%. As a result, after spending years in Türkiye, immigrants integrate into the labor market.