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

dc.contributor.authorTekgüç, Hasan
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:01:08Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:01:08Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonomi Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractSocial 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.citation17
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120en_US
dc.identifier.endpage570
dc.identifier.issn1360-8746en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-9612en_US
dc.identifier.issn1360-8746
dc.identifier.issn1743-9612
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85058071584en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage547en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/269
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120
dc.identifier.volume23en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000458738700007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.institutionauthorTekgüç, Hasanen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.journalSouth European Society and Politicsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectSocial protectionen_US
dc.subjectSocial assistanceen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectIncome inequalityen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleDeclining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownershipen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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