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Does economic growth support the minimum wage? Evidences based in Turkey

Journal of Economics and Political Economy

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Title Does economic growth support the minimum wage? Evidences based in Turkey
 
Creator KARGI, Bilal; yazar
 
Subject Economic growth; Minimum wage; Employment; Unemployment.
F43; E24; J31.
 
Description Abstract. The effects of the growth performances over minimum wages are examined in this study. Minimum wage is a level of income which is determined by the government in order people to be able to maintain humanitarian consumption rate under the economic conditions in which they survive. Such an partial interference to competitive economics can affect many macroeconomic variables. In this study, the relationship between minimum wage and the growth performance is investigated within fast growing Turkish economy. The effects of minimum wage over employment and how the employment rate changes by the effects of minimum wage increases reflect to the growth processes is depicted. After the applied tests, the results are acquired as there is co-integration relationship in the long run between minimum wage and the growth and Granger causality occurred in double direction.Keywords. Economic growth, Minimum wage, Employment, Unemployment.JEL. F43, E24, J31.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics and Political Economy
Journal of Economics and Political Economy
 
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Date 2018-12-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEPE/article/view/1816
10.1453/jepe.v5i4.1816
 
Source Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 5, No 4 (2018): December; 439-449
Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 5, No 4 (2018): December; 439-449
2148-8347
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEPE/article/view/1816/1799
 
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