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Türkiye’nin Asgari Ücret Oranı ‘Seçimi’: Nedenleri ve Olası Sonuçları

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  • Ali Rıza ÖZDEMİR
  • Melike Rana DAYIOĞLU

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In this study, choice of minimum wage rate that is related to poverty and inequality has been analyzed on Turkish example. Turkish government has decided 30 percent increase in minimum wage that has been an important campaign issue for the last two national elections. We have seen in fact that minimum wage has been increased every year in the recent past (i.e. increases of 2004 and 2008) and got its adequate share from increasing Turkey’s national income. In comparison with EU and OECD member countries, inadequacy in Turkish rates is expected to continue even though the plan of increase in minimum wage is more than causal trend of last 14 years. The analysis shows that even when purchasing power parity is taken into account, minimum wage in Turkey is three times lower and the number of employees working for it is higher more than three times. For this reason, it required to reduce tax wedge on the minimum wage, cooperatively increase social transfers that increases life standards of minimum wage earners and start to use differentiated minimum wage policies while encountering the adverse effect of a raise in minimum wage.

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  • Ali Rıza ÖZDEMİR & Melike Rana DAYIOĞLU, 2016. "Türkiye’nin Asgari Ücret Oranı ‘Seçimi’: Nedenleri ve Olası Sonuçları," Sosyoekonomi Journal, Sosyoekonomi Society, issue 24(27).
    • Handle: RePEc:sos:sosjrn:160112
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    Keywords

    Income Equality and Poverty; Minimum Wage; Taxation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining

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