Using a balanced panel data set drawn from TurkStat’s Income and Living Conditions Survey, we examine the transition of Turkish households into and out of poverty. During the four year period (2007-2010) under examination, the relative poverty rate had remained more or less the same in Turkey...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of job finding. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir...

The main purpose of this study is to carry out descriptive and econometric analyses (at the province and district levels) to identify the urbanization–related determinants of the electoral success of the currently-ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). The AKP...

This study aims to analyse Turkish economy for the 2000-2012 term with emphasis on labor market hysteresis within the framework of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC). In this study employment and unemployment series are tested for stationarity and relevant statistical analysis is realized....

The study aims to analyze  Turkish economy for the period 2000-2012 with emphasis on hysteresis mechanism in labor markets. New Keynesian (NK) framework has natural rate (or Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemploymet - NAIRU) vs alternative theory of hysteresis as  explanations for...

Success, which is mostly seen as an internal talent within a child, is indeed also influenced by many external factors including the behaviour of their parents during their childhood. Though father is an important figure, the role of the mother in child’s development is indisputable. Perhaps,...

The Turkish Health System underwent several evolutions from the early days of the Republic until the beginning of 1990s. The most radical changes came after 1990s in the context of reforms implemented within Turkey’s accession process to European Union. The Turkish Health System has been...