...Ferdi Celikay; Erdal Gumus Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between social expenditure and poverty in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach There are voluminous studies in the literature and many of which contain condradictory results...

... flows. The purpose of this paper is to test the linkage between democracy and FDI flows to Turkey. Design/methodology/approach The present study employs a bounds testing procedure developed (Pesaran et al., 2001) for cointegration analysis on six different long-run models with selected...

...Oznur Ozdamar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of life satisfaction in Turkey. Moreover, this study explores the effects of air pollution and crime problems on well-being. Design/methodology/approach The estimates are based on cross-sectional data from...

... transformation in the regulatory environment of Turkey. On the one hand, the legal rules that constrain the operation of market forces decreased giving way to more entrepreneurial activity; while on the other hand, the state's effectiveness in “policing” the market declined. As the regulatory barriers to private...

...Ferda Halicioglu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the dynamics of crime in Turkey at aggregate and disaggregate levels and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between crime, health, income, divorce, urbanization and security expenditures. Design/methodology...

...Taner Akan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out if there is any convergence between the Third Way in Europe and the Conservative Democracy in Turkey in their politico‐economic strategies for dealing with the social question with the thought that both the political identities have come...

... opportunities Turkey The Netherlands Metropolitan areas in many countries have increasingly turned into pluriform and multi‐cultural societies. Ethnic entrepreneurship and, increasingly, female entrepreneurship have become popular concepts in modern multi‐cultural society. In a modern “multi‐color...

...Baris K. Yoruk; Osman Zaim This paper is aimed at measuring and comparing the quality of life in European Union (EU) and Turkey as an important candidate country on the process of integrating with the EU. Rather than using per capita income as a classical measure, this study uses social indicators...

... of microstates are defined and a case study of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus is used to examine them further. Conclusions are drawn and, hopefully, discussion will be stimulated regarding the relatively unexplored field of microstates. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Economics Development Turkey...

... in conflict with a peer in the work environment. Cases were content‐analysed by the researchers. Indicates that the nature of the conflict situation is important in examining conflict resolution styles across cultures. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Conflict National cultures Students Turkey...