 Türkiye’nin Asgari Ücret Oranı ‘Seçimi’: Nedenleri ve Olası SonuçlarıAli Rıza Özdemi̇r and Melike Rana Dayioğlu Sosyoekonomi Journal, 2016, issue 24(27) Abstract: 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. Keywords: Income Equality and Poverty; Minimum Wage; Taxation. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sos:sosjrn:160112 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Sosyoekonomi Journal from Sosyoekonomi Society Cihan St. 27/7 06430 Sihhiye Ankara Turkey. |
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