Didem Tuzemen
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, Missouri
Biography
Didem Tüzemen is a Senior Economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Ms. Tüzemen joined the department in July 2011 after earning her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds a B.S. degree in physics and a M.A. degree in economics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Ms. Tüzemen's main areas of research are macroeconomics, labor economics, health economics, and political economy.
Professional Journals and Books
- "Job Polarization and the Natural Rate of Unemployment in the United States,” Economics Letters, forthcoming.
- "Labor Market Dynamics with Endogenous Labor Force Participation and On-the-Job Search," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2017, 75, pp. 28-51.
- "Network Effects in Credit Market Access: Evidence from Istanbul," with Fikret Adaman and Oya Pinar Ardic, Iktisat Isletme ve Finans, 2013, 28, pp. 9-32.
- "Inflation Targeting: A Three-Decade Perspective," with Salem Abo Zaid, Journal of Policy Modeling, 2011, 34(5), pp. 621-645.
- "Hospital Choice: Survey Evidence from Istanbul," with Fikret Adaman, Oya Pinar Ardic and Burcay Erus, Turkish Studies, September 2009, 10(3), pp. 471-496.
Economic Review Articles
- "Why Are Prime-Age Men Vanishing from the Labor Force?"
First Quarter 2018 - "Evaluating a Year of Oil Price Volatility"
with Troy Davig, Nida Çakir Melek, Jun Nie, and A. Lee Smith - "Does Health Care Reform Support Self-Employment?"
with Thealexa Becker, Third Quarter 2014 - "The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers' Response to the Decline in Middle-Skill Jobs"
with Jonathan Willis, First Quarter 2013
Research Working Papers
- "The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Force Participation"
with Willem Van Zandweghe, RWP 18-08 - "Job Polarization and the Natural Rate of Unemployment in the United States"
RWP 18-03 - "Health Care Reform or Labor Market Reform? A Quantitative Analysis of the Affordable Care Act"
with Makoto Nakajima, RWP 15-10 - "Self-Employment and Health Care Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts"
with Thealexa Becker, RWP 14-16 - "Commodity Dependence and Fiscal Capacity"
with Mauricio Cárdenas and Santiago Ramírez, RWP 11-08 - "Under-Investment in State Capacity: The Role of Inequality and Political Instability"
with Mauricio Cárdenas, RWP 11-07
The Macro Bulletin
- "Trends in the Labor Share Post-2000"
with W. Blake Marsh and Thao Tran - "A New Estimate of the Natural Rate of Unemployment"
- "What is Behind the Recent Increase in Labor Force Participation?"
with Jonathan L. Willis - "Evaluating a Year of Oil Price Volatility"
with Troy Davig, Nida Çakir Melek, Jun Nie, and A. Lee Smith - "Opportunity Knocks: Improved Matching of Jobs and Workers"
with Jonathan L. Willis - "Does Health Care Reform Support Self-Employment?"
with Thealexa Becker
