Social Security Membership and Saving: The Turkish Case

Çağaçan Değer and Elif Erer

Sosyoekonomi Journal, 2020, issue 28(43)

Abstract: This study analyses the micro-foundations of the saving behaviour in Turkey, looking for a humpback profile in saving rates. Household Expenditure Surveys are used to construct a pseudo-panel of the saving rate. Then, an age-cohort-period decomposition is undertaken to isolate the agedependent behaviour of the saving rate in Turkey. The analysis is repeated for sub-samples based on social security status. Further investigation is carried out with truncated regression. Existence of a humpback profile is confirmed, but no systematic link between social security membership and the humpback profile is identified.

Keywords: Saving Behaviour; Life Cycle Models of Saving; Panel Data Models. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D14 D15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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