IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON TURKEY

Year 2019, Volume: 8 Issue: 4, 297 - 310, 05.12.2019

Ayfer Özyılmaz , Yüksel Bayraktar Metin Toprak

Abstract

Remittances are an important source of financing in developing countries and affect the economies in many ways including economic growth, poverty, investment and consumption expenditures, labor markets, and income inequalities. the impact of remittances on income inequality has been tested in Turkey for the period of 1984-2015 by using cointegration technique (ARDL). Gini index was used as the dependent variable and immigrant transfers, economic growth, and foreign direct investments were used as independent variables in the model. According to the analysis findings, migrant transfers increase income inequalities in the long term

Keywords

Remittances, income distribution, income inequality, ARDL

ULUSLARARASI GÖÇMEN HAVALELERİNİN GELİR EŞİTSİZLİĞİ ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: TÜRKİYE ÜZERİNE AMPİRİK BİR ANALİZ

Abstract

Göçmen havaleleri, gelişmekte olan ülkelerde önemli bir finansman kaynağı olup, ekonomik büyüme, yoksulluk, yatırım ve tüketim harcamaları, işgücü piyasaları ve gelir eşitsizlikleri olmak üzere söz konusu ülke ekonomilerini birçok yönden etkilemektedir. Bu çalışmada, 1984-2015 döneminde Türkiye’de uluslararası göç sonrası gelir transferlerinin gelir eşitsizlikleri üzerindeki etkisi ARDL sınır testi ile araştırılmaktadır. Bağımlı değişken olarak Gini endeksi kullanılmış ve modelde bağımsız değişken olarak göçmen havaleleri, ekonomik büyüme ve doğrudan yabancı yatırımlar yer almıştır. Analiz bulgularına göre, göçmen havaleleri uzun dönemde gelir eşitsizliklerini artırmaktadır.

Keywords

Göçmen havaleleri, işçi dövizleri, gelir dağılımı, gelir eşitsizliği, ardl

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