Türk, Umut
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Tuerk, Umut Turk, Umut Türk, Umut
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Doç. Dr.
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umut.turk@agu.edu.tr
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03.02. Ekonomi
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3GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
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4QUALITY EDUCATION
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| Regional Science Policy and Practice | 2 |
| Journal of Geographical Systems | 2 |
| Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science | 2 |
| Journal of Urban Management | 2 |
| Eastern Journal of European Studies | 2 |
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Editorial Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Special Issue on The City 2.0 - Smart People, Places and Planning(Elsevier, 2022-06) Nijkamp, Peter; Kourtit, Karima; Turk, UmutEditorial Modelling Place Attractiveness in the Era of Big and Open Data Introduction(Wiley, 2022-08) Osth, John; Turk, Umut; Huang, JieArticle Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 16Inequality in Leisure Mobility: An Analysis of Activity Space Segregation Spectra in the Stockholm Conurbation(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2023-07) Toger, Marina; Turk, Umut; Osth, John; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, PeterLeisure mobility forms an important part of people's spatial activity and mobility spectrum. This study aims to analyse the inequality dimensions of spatial mobility of individuals who seek to move to recreational and leisure destinations (often 'green' and 'blue') on designated days. The study traces - through the use of spatially dependent multilevel models - the mobility patterns of people from the greater Stockholm area, using individual pseudonymised mobile phone data and other publicly accessible data. We find significant socio-demographic inequalities in the observed residents' spatial leisure choices, where less affluent groups display especially low variation in mobility when comparing between weekdays, weekends, vacation season and work-periods.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Intergenerational Income Mobility in Sweden: A Look at the Spatial Disparities Across Municipalities(Wiley, 2022-08) Michelangeli, Alessandra; Osth, John; Turk, UmutThis paper provides a comprehensive overview of intergenerational income mobility in Sweden. Intergenerational income mobility is considered in both relative and absolute terms, and the analysis is carried out at the individual and municipality level. We use multilevel models to explore the correlation between upward mobility and social, economic and demographic characteristics of cities. We account for a wider set of local characteristics, such as the spatial distribution of income inequality within city and housing affordability that have not been considered by previous studies analysing social mobility in the United States or other European countries. The analyses are carried out on three subpopulations: off-spring who live in a different municipality than their parents (spatial mobile population); offspring who live in the municipality where they grew up (spatial immobile population); off-spring belonging to visible minority groups. Our results show substantial differences across municipalities, meaning that the particular combination of municipality attributes contributes to shaping the chance of status attainment among young generations. Highly mobile municipalities have more significant human capital, more residential segregation by income, more local levels of income inequality, and greater accessibility to jobs. The results indicate that dependence on parents' support and network for upward mobility is of less importance, and that spatial mobility (regardless of background) especially to larger urban areas is associated with upward mobility for the children.Article Gelir Dağılımında Fırsat Eşitsizliği ve Alt Kırılımları: Türkiye Üzerine Bir Araştırma(2020) Türk, UmutBu makale 2005 ve 2017 yılları arasındaki 12 yıl içinde Türkiye’de gelir dağılımdaki fırsat eşitsizliğini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Normatif bir eşitlik kuramı olarak fırsat eşitsizliği, bireylerin çaba ve seçimleri ile bertaraf edemeyecekleri, iradeleri dışında maruz kaldıkları fayda kaybının bir ölçüsüdür. Son yıllarda fırsat eşitsizliği üzerine farklı ülkeleri ve ülkeler arası karşılaştırmalı analizleri içeren çok sayıda ampirik çalışma yapılmıştır. Özellikle mevcut veri setlerinin aile yapısıyla ilgili temel bilgileri içermemesi, bu alanda yapılan çalışmaların Türkiye özelinde sınırlı kalmasına sebep olmuştur. Bu makalede TUİK tarafından her yıl düzenli olarak derlenen Hane Halkı Gelir ve Yaşam Koşulları verilerini kullanılmıştır. Veri setinde aile yapısına dair eksik gözlemler istatistiksel metotlarla tamamlanarak, fırsat eşitsizliği analizlerinin yapılmasının mümkün olmuştur. Çalışmada gelir dağılımındaki farklılıklar cinsiyet, anne ve baba eğitim seviyesi ve ikamet edilen bölge üzerinden incelenmiş, bu faktörlerin yarattığı eşitsizlikler ayrıntılarıyla ortaya konulmuştur. Analizler 25-35 yaş aralığındaki genç nüfus için ayrıca tekrarlanarak işgücü piyasasına henüz dahil olan bireylerin karşılaştıkları fırsat eşitsizliği ve bunun alt bileşenleri incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın referans yılları küresel ekonomik kriz dönemlerini de içerdiğinden, literatürde göz ardı edilen fırsat eşitsizliği ve kriz arasındaki ilişki ile bunun genel nüfus ve genç nüfus açısında sonuçları da tartışılmıştır.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 8The Effect of Lockdown on Students' Performance: A Comparative Study Between Italy, Sweden and Turkey(Cell Press, 2023-06) Casalone, Giorgia; Michelangeli, Alessandra; Osth, John; Turk, UmutDuring the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak, countries adopted different strategies in order to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, ranging from recommendations to limit individual movement to severe lockdown measures. Regarding higher education, university studies were shifted to digital solutions in most countries. The sudden move to online teaching affected stu-dents differently, depending on the overall mitigation strategies applied. Severe lockdown and closure measures caused a disruption of their academic and social interactions. In contrast, rec-ommendations to limit activities probably did not change students' life to a great extent. The heterogeneity of the policies adopted in three countries (Italy, Sweden and Turkey) gives us an opportunity to assess the effects of lockdown measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic on uni-versity students' performance. We employ a difference-in-differences approach by exploiting the fact that Italy and Turkey experienced national lockdowns, while Sweden never applied nation-wide mandatory restrictive policies. We use administrative data from universities in the three countries to estimate the probability to pass exams after the spread of COVID-19 pandemic (and the shift to distance education), with respect to the previous comparable period. We find that the pass rate decreased with the shift to online teaching. However, lockdown measures, especially if very restrictive as those applied in Italy, helped to compensate such negative effect. A possible explanation is that students took advantage of the huge increase in the time available for their studies, given the impossibility to carry out any activity outside the home.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 6Hedonic Price Models, Social Media Data and AI - An Application to the AirBNB Sector in US Cities(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2025-09) Osth, John; Turk, Umut; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, PeterThe Airbnb sector has experienced exponential growth over the past decade and has led to extensive research in fields such as hospitality sciences, urban geography, tourism economics, and information management. This paper contributes to quantitative research in the Airbnb sector by focusing on the integration of digital platform data at the neighborhood level. It explores innovative methodologies for analyzing urban attractiveness by combining insights from hedonic pricing models with large-scale digital data sourced through AI-based approaches. This novel framework compares user-based valuations of accommodations derived from hedonic pricing with subjective, AI-generated neighborhood descriptions, offering new perspectives on data quality and reliability in information systems. The study also critically examines the challenges of integrating AI-generated content in information science, referencing also 'Garbage-in Garbage-out' and 'Bullshit-in Bullshit-out' concepts. Employing a multi-scalar modeling approach, the research examines Airbnb pricing dynamics across several U.S. cities, starting with Manhattan (USA) as an illustrative case. A subsequent large-scale application to additional metropolitan areas utilizes a combination of hedonic price modeling, social media data, and AI-generated urban descriptions, including a Shapley decomposition analysis. This interdisciplinary integration provides actionable insights into neighborhood attractiveness and pricing mechanisms, while highlighting methodological and empirical contributions to the broader field of information management. By employing the relationship between AI-driven textual data and quantitative modeling, this research provides added value in analyzing urban information systems and their application to digital platforms.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 13Student Performance Under Asynchronous and Synchronous Methods in Distance Education: A Quasi-Field Experiment(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2022-11) Demirtas, Burak Kagan; Turk, UmutThis study examines student performance under asynchronous and synchronous methods in a microeconomics course during COVID-19 pandemic. We conduct a quasi-field experiment in a state university in Turkey. In the experiment, students were divided into synchronous and asynchronous groups and were taught the same weekly material of microeconomics by the methods respective to their group. At the end of the week, both groups took the same multiple question test. Our results showed that asynchronous group performed significantly better than the synchronous group. While showing the comparative advantage of the asynchronous method, our study also underlines the importance of interaction between instructors and students. We discuss our findings from a socioeconomic perspective, where we argue that the flexibility that the asynchronous method offers might have compensated for the accessibility issues (internet and/or computer) during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a policy recommendation, universities can offer lectures with a recorded option to allow students to interact with the course material multiple times.Master Thesis COVID-19 Sürecinde Hareketlilikte Eşitsizlik: Küresel ve Yerel Analiz(Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2022) Gençaslan, Elif; Gençaslan, Elif; Türk, Umut; Madenoğlu, Fatma SelenThis thesis analyzes mobility patterns during the Covid-19 pandemic from a global and local perspective. The global framework includes 37 European countries and the local framework comprises 81 Turkish cities. The study follows the daily mobility trajectories of people from February 2020 to January 2022. The analyzes are conducted to understand the economic opportunities available in countries -at a macro scale- that facilitate or hinder the 'proper' mobility behavior of individuals while focusing on the captive commuters, i.e., the share of the population who need to commute to the work despite the risk of infection and governmental policies. The results indicate that the workforce in regions with higher GDP per capita, education level, and life expectancy at birth was able to reduce their workplace mobility higher than commuters in areas with low income, education level, and life expectancy at birth. Therefore, unprivileged populations were exposed to higher health risks against rapid Covid-19 transmission in Europe and Turkish cities.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 7Villages in the City - Urban Planning for Neighbourhood Love(Wiley, 2024-03-17) Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Turk, Umut; Wahlstrom, MiaThe city comprises of a wide variety of heterogeneous territorial units (e.g. districts or neighbourhoods). In many - especially larger - cities, social capital assets (like community bonds) are mirrored at the level of neighbourhoods which form the home for many sociocultural communities or distinct socio-economic classes. We postulate in this study that the big city is essentially an 'archipelago' made up of 'urban villages'. We analyse the residents' perceived attractiveness regarding their daily local neighbourhood by introducing the concept of 'village love' (or 'neighbourhood love'), inspired by the recent literature on 'city love' (comprising 'body', 'soul' and 'community' constituents of urban life). Based on an extensive and detailed multi-annual database for all neighbourhoods in Rotterdam, the present paper seeks to identify the background factors shaping 'village love' in the city, with particular attention to the citizens' subjective appreciation for and access to a great variety of (physical and immaterial) urban amenities shaping the place-based satisfaction of residents. The theoretical framing of our research resembles the basics of traditional central place theory here transmitted to the urban space in which local proximity to amenities plays a key role. A wide array of relevant amenities impacting on the place-specific well-being feelings ('village love') of residents in various neighbourhoods in the city of Rotterdam is distinguished using inter alia-rich multi-annual survey data. This approach is empirically tested and verified by means of LISA statistics and advanced spatial econometric dependence models ('urbanometrics'). The findings confirm the usefulness of a central place interpretation of 'urban village love' in the city. 'Villages in the City - Urban Planning for Neighbourhood Love': This study advocates that cities are composed of interconnected 'urban villages', each with its own social capital and community bonds. Using extensive data from Rotterdam, we investigate the factors influencing residents' perceived attractiveness and satisfaction with their local neighbourhoods. Our analysis highlights the importance of access to diverse amenities in shaping residents' sense of 'village love'. Through spatial econometric models, the study confirms the central place interpretation of 'urban village love' in the city, shaping future urban planning strategies for fostering vibrant and cohesive communities.image