Using data drawn from a survey conducted shortly after the 2002 elections, we investigate the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) election victory from the perspective of inter-party vote movements. Our aim is not only to identify the parties from which the AKP votes originated, but also the...

Using data from the European Social Survey, we investigate the influence of individuals' self-perceptions of being a member of an age group on their assessment of the beginning of ‘old age'. The proper examination of this relationship calls for the consideration of the effects of age and...

Using data drawn from a nationwide voter-tendencies survey conducted shortly before the July 2007 parliamentary election in Turkey, inter-party vote movements during the 2002-2007 period are investigated with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as the focal point. A descriptive analysis...

This study attempts to shed light on the gendered aspect of MSEs (i.e. how the sectors of activities, income, growth, etc. differ by the gender of the entrepreneur) and tests some of the main claims of the rather modest available literature by means of an econometric analysis. The empirical work...

The purpose of this paper is to provide further insights into how the Turkish internal migrants' party choices are influenced by the voting patterns in their places of origin. We consider the impact of several factors including the timing of the departure from the origin and the migrants'...

The objective of this study is to determine the factors affecting the early retirement preferences of Egyptian government sector employees. In line with the existing literature, we consider the possibility that the early retirement and post-retirement employment decisions are made jointly. We do...

Based on the 3-way and 5-way groupings of Turkey’s 81 provinces obtained in Akarca and Başlevent (2011), we report the regional vote shares of the main parties in the Turkish party system in each nationwide election held between 1999 and 2009. The vote shares reveal that conservative...

Making use of official survey data, we examine the evolution of household income inequality in Turkey during the past fifteen years. We observe the contributions to inequality of the main components of household income, namely labor market earnings, non-wage income, and imputed rents. In an...

Making use of individual-level data from the 2008 Household Budget Survey, we examine the variation in the hours of work of Turkish workers during a normal work week. We consider several variables that are likely to define different sectors (or segments) of the labor market in terms of the...

Using data on the sale prices and structural characteristics of close to nine thousand apartments from around the country, we estimate several versions of a hedonic price model of the Turkish housing market. The characteristics we control for include the surface area and the number of rooms of...