A PRACTICAL SOLUTION FOR A DEVELOPING COUNTRY RELATED TO INCOME INEQUALITY: SUPPORTING WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT

Year 2016, Volume: 14 Issue: 4, 1 - 22, 28.12.2016

Deniz Züngün , Emine Türkan Ayvaz Güven

https://doi.org/10.18026/cbayarsos.280557

Abstract

This study examines the effect of
the rate of women’s employment on income distribution in Turkey between 2004
and 2015. The overall income generated by everyone, without exception, in a
society forms the gross domestic product of that country. The societies with lower rates of women in employment tend to
record relatively lower levels of gross domestic product compared to those with
greater number of women in employment. Given that
women are employed in all kinds of sectors ranging from agriculture to services
today, it is evident that income distribution is relatively more equal in
societies with greater number of women in employment. On the assumption that the half of
the population of the world, accordingly of Turkey just as each country in the
world, is female; it has been observed that the income inequality in Turkey has
decreased with the increasing employment of women. In 2004-2015 periods, 1% increase in FER in Turkey is
expected to create a 2.79% decrease in GINI.

Keywords

Women Employment, GINI Coefficient

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