Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: the Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership

dc.contributor.author Tekgüç, Hasan
dc.contributor.author Tekgüç, Hasan
dc.contributor.other Economics
dc.date.accessioned 2019-06-27T08:01:08Z
dc.date.available 2019-06-27T08:01:08Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonomi Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Social assistance has become prominent in combating poverty in developing countries and has also contributed to the popularity and election success of governments implementing it. In this paper I employ household surveys and investigate the effect of social assistance on poverty and income inequality in Turkey. I also review the recent literature on poverty as well as different components of social protection spending: education health pensions and housing. In the empirical analysis I show that pensions still constitute the bulk of public transfers to households. Moreover home ownership ameliorates poverty and inequality for Turkey. Despite its modest amounts social assistance reduces poverty and its marginal effect on income inequality is larger than other income sources. These findings suggest that increases in social assistance budgets should accompany other policy measures in combating poverty and inequality. en_US]
dc.identifier.citationcount 17
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 570
dc.identifier.issn 1360-8746 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1743-9612 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1360-8746
dc.identifier.issn 1743-9612
dc.identifier.issue 4
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85058071584 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 547 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/269
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120
dc.identifier.volume 23 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000458738700007 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Tekgüç, Hasan en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.journal South European Society and Politics en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 23
dc.subject Social protection en_US
dc.subject Social assistance en_US
dc.subject Poverty en_US
dc.subject Income inequality en_US
dc.subject Housing en_US
dc.subject Turkey en_US
dc.title Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: the Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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