Income, Unemployment and Crime in Turkey: An Analysis of Causality

Kaya MUHAMMED Veysel, Aytekin Ibrahim and Yılmaz SUAT Serhat
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Kaya MUHAMMED Veysel: Kirikkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
Aytekin Ibrahim: Kirikkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
Yılmaz SUAT Serhat: Kirikkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2018, issue 1, 85-90

Abstract: In this study, the relationship unemployment, GDP per capita and crime in Turkey in the years between 1985 and 2015 is analyzed econometrically and the relationship between these indicators is examined. Unit root test analysis, cointegration analysis and Granger causality model analysis are conducted in the study. In the result of the analysis, it is come into conclusion that there is a long-run relationship between the variables, and there is the two-way causality relationship between crime and GDP per capita and between crime and unemployment. but it is inferred that there is no causality relationship between GDP Per Capita and Unemployment.

Keywords: Unemployment; Crime; GDP; Turkey; Causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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