DEVELOPMENT AND INDIVIDUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION: IS KUZNETS HYPOTHESIS VALID FOR TURKEY

Volume: 09 Number: 18 September 1, 2009
  • Cem Dişbudak
  • Bora Süslü
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DEVELOPMENT AND INDIVIDUAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION: IS KUZNETS HYPOTHESIS VALID FOR TURKEY

Abstract

In the Kuznets’s inverted-U hypothesis, economic growth initially worsens income inequality and then improves it later at a higher stage of development. This paper aims to investigate whether the Kuznets’s inverted U-curve is applicable to the period of 1963-1998 in Turkey. Previous researcher commonly used the cross-sectional data to test the Kuznets’s hypothesis. Those studies based on that kind of data cannot capture timepath of income distribution in a specific country. However, this article uses time-series data from the UTIP and recent advanced time-series modeling (Autoregressif Distributed Lag –ARDL- approach) to test the hypothesis. The empirical findings of the study show opposite results to the Kuznets’s hypothesis. Thus, the income distribution in Turkey improves in the early stages of economics development and it later becomes less equal. We conclude that income inequality is not a mechanical process, but it is usually determined through the macroeconomic policies implemented and general framework of economic settings

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Turkish

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Authors

Cem Dişbudak This is me

Bora Süslü This is me

Publication Date

September 1, 2009

Submission Date

September 1, 2009

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Year 2009 Volume: 09 Number: 18

APA
Dişbudak, C., & Süslü, B. (2009). 7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi, 09(18), 146-166. https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP
AMA
1.Dişbudak C, Süslü B. 7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi. 2009;09(18):146-166. https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP
Chicago
Dişbudak, Cem, and Bora Süslü. 2009. “7_Disbudak_Suslu.Pdf”. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi 09 (18): 146-66. https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP.
EndNote
Dişbudak C, Süslü B (September 1, 2009) 7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi 09 18 146–166.
IEEE
[1]C. Dişbudak and B. Süslü, “7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf”, Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi, vol. 09, no. 18, pp. 146–166, Sept. 2009, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP
ISNAD
Dişbudak, Cem - Süslü, Bora. “7_Disbudak_Suslu.Pdf”. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi 09/18 (September 1, 2009): 146-166. https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP.
JAMA
1.Dişbudak C, Süslü B. 7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi. 2009;09:146–166.
MLA
Dişbudak, Cem, and Bora Süslü. “7_Disbudak_Suslu.Pdf”. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi, vol. 09, no. 18, Sept. 2009, pp. 146-6, https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP.
Vancouver
1.Cem Dişbudak, Bora Süslü. 7_Disbudak_Suslu.pdf. Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi [Internet]. 2009 Sep. 1;09(18):146-6. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65EL83FP