Using province and individual level data, this note presents empirical evidence on the relationship between turnout rates and the electoral success of Turkey's major parties. Regression results reveal that the province level turnout rate is positively associated with the vote share of the...

Making use of official survey data, we examine the evolution of household income inequality in Turkey during the past fifteen years. We observe the contributions to inequality of the main components of household income, namely labor market earnings, non-wage income, and imputed rents. In an...

Making use of individual-level data from the 2008 Household Budget Survey, we examine the variation in the hours of work of Turkish workers during a normal work week. We consider several variables that are likely to define different sectors (or segments) of the labor market in terms of the...

Using data on the sale prices and structural characteristics of close to nine thousand apartments from around the country, we estimate several versions of a hedonic price model of the Turkish housing market. The characteristics we control for include the surface area and the number of rooms of...

This study attempts to shed light on the gendered aspect of MSEs (i.e. how the sectors of activities, income, growth, etc. differ by the gender of the entrepreneur) and tests some of the main claims of the rather modest available literature by means of an econometric analysis. The empirical work...

The purpose of this study is to examine the labour market outcomes of married couples to find out which of the added and discouraged worker effects is dominant in urban Turkish families. Using household labour force survey and province-level data from 1988 and 1994, we look for evidence...

Based on the 3-way and 5-way groupings of Turkey’s 81 provinces obtained in Akarca and Başlevent (2011), we report the regional vote shares of the main parties in the Turkish party system in each nationwide election held between 1999 and 2009. The vote shares reveal that conservative...

Using data from a 2009 survey of electoral tendencies, we investigate the predictive power of Turkish people’s basic personal values and core political attitudes in explaining their political choices. Through logit analysis and the comparison of the sub-sample means of the available variables,...