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...

We examine whether employees’ preferences for various job attributes are associated with their individual characteristics in ways that are in line with ‘hierarchy of needs’ theories. Using data from the fifth round of the European Social Survey, we observe the influence of...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of home-ownership on income distribution in Turkey. Making use of raw data from an official income distribution survey which provides information on cash and in-kind incomes of household members and imputed rents for home-owners, it is found...

To investigate the inter-generational links in educational attainment across Multiple regression with interaction terms to allow for gender differences at both generations.-Parents’ schooling is positively associated with the child’s educational attainment -The father’s employment has a...

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...

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...