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With globalization, immigrant mobility has increased in recent years. Accordingly, the studies that reveal the effects of immigration especially on bilateral trade have accelerated. There are results that related to international immigration influence international trade positively through various channels. In this paper, it's aimed to determine whether the number of immigrants from Turkey to other countries effect the Turkey's exports and if so, to explain the direction of this effect. To this end, for the year 2009, countries that have more than 500 Turkish Republic citizen and Turkey's exports of consumption goods to these countries were used. The results show that an increase in the number of immigrants from Turkey to other countries increase the exports of consumption goods to these countries through the preference effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of flexicurity found its way into labour law in the 1990s as consequence of globalization. The concept could be defined as a strategy that aims at eliminating rigid rules from working life and forming a flexible structure while at the same time ensuring an adequate protection for workers. Flexicurity today has become a cornerstone of EU employment policy. European Commission's Green Paper published in 2006 clearly emphasizes the need for flexicurity and in a way, determines the direction of EU employment strategy. Flexicurity has been reflected onto member state legislative arrangements as well. Within this context, there have been remarkable efforts for softening the job protection legislation. Additionally, atypical forms of employment including fixed term contracts, temporary employment relationship, part time work and on call work have been handled in a flexicurity dimension. Flexibility in working time has also constituted another dimension of flexicurity. When looked at the Turkish Labour Law, it is possible to suggest the existence of a divided structure. On one hand there is unregistered work dominated by lack of rules, and on the other, a legal structure lacking necessary level of flexibility in especially certain areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]