There is an important support to the view in public that crime rate has been increasing in the recent years in Turkey. In addition, it is argued that social and economic factors play an important role in increasing the crime in the country. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent...

Classical economics envisaged to reach the subsistence level of wages in the long term. Keynes, however, argued that it would be sticky downward wages with trade union activities. Since the 1930s, governments have begun to phase out the laws of the minimum wage to support employees' income...