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(1994) Oktay, Ahmet
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Inflationary effect of crude oil prices in Turkey
(Elsevier BV, 2002) Berument, Hakan; Taşçı, H.
It is generally acknowledged that changes in oil prices affect economic welfare in ways that are not entirely reflected in transactions in the oil market. In this article, by using the 1990 input-output table, the inflationary effects of crude oil prices are investigated for Turkey. Under fixed nominal wages, profits, interest and rent earnings, the effect of increasing prices of oil on inflation is limited. However, when wages and the other three factors of income (profit, interest and rent) are adjusted to the general price level that includes the oil price increases, the inflationary effect of oil prices becomes significant. Hence, indexation could have very severe effects on an economy when oil prices increase and, in some cases, could even lead to hyperinflation. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Modelling the relationship between productivity, employment and wages in Turkish small and medium sized enterprises,1981-1998
(2001) Demirel, Görkemli
This thesis analyzes the empirical relationship between wages and productivity as well as the relationship between wages and employment in Turkish manufacturing industry. Unlike the previous studies done for manufacturing industry, in this study the size definitions of manufacturing industry, sectoral distribution and the sectoral division between public and private sector are considered. In the empirical part of the thesis, first wage and productivity and wage and employment relationships are estimated by using OLS method. After finding out both wage-productivity and wage-employment relationships are significant, descriptive growth rate comparisons are made for the period of 1981-1998. The main conclusion that emerges from both analyses is that relationship between variables of interest is valid. Wages, productivity and employment relationship have important policy implications regarding especially on Turkish small and medium sized enterprises.
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Workers of the Ereğli-Zonguldak coal basin, 1848-1922
(2001) Aytekin, Erden Attila
This thesis focuses on the workers in Ereğli-Zonguldak coal basin, the most important mining region in the Ottoman Empire. The operation in the basin started in 1848, and in the course of the three quarter-centuries that passed until 1922, considerable transformations in terms of technology, administrative structure, capital composition etc. have taken place in the basin. These transformations had important consequences for the working and living conditions of the workers, and towards the end of the period in question, the workers themselves emerged as innegligible actors and began to influence the developments in the basin. The thesis is basically organised around two lines of investigation. The first line is the wages of workers. The development of the wages of different categories of workers is investigated for the period of 1875-1922, for which data exists, and the period of 1905-11 and the year 1922 are paid special attention. Leaving aside the apparent erosion during the war years, it could be observed that the real wages in the basin presented a stable pattern. On the other hand, this erosion was not distributed evenly; different categories of workers were affected to different extents. The thesis also discusses the impact of the Strikes of 1908, which broke out in the basin as did throughout the empire. The cuts and deductions imposed on wages under different names are also discussed under a separate heading. The second line of investigation is the industrial accidents that have taken place in the mines. The accidents that occurred in the years 1909-10 are discussed in detail and the reactions of different people, groups and institutions including the state and the workers, to these accidents are analysed. The state’s response has been ambivalent and at times contradictory, in accordance with the nature of Ottoman state of the time and the structural and conjectural conditions in which it found itself. The response of the workers has manifested itself in strikes.