We investigate the evolution of Turkey’s wage, income and consumption inequalities using a cross-country comparable methodology and the Turkish Statistical Institute’s Household Budget Survey and the Survey of Income and Living Conditions micro data sets. Turkey’s wage, income and consumption inequalities all exhibit downward time trends over the 2002-2016 period. This observation aligns well with the rapid minimum wage growth over the period. While wage inequality estimates display strong countercyclicality, income and consumption inequalities exhibit rather acyclical time-series movements. While recent education premium estimates of Turkey are similar to those in the early 2000s, estimates of recent gender and experience premiums, as well as residual wage inequality are lower. Income and consumption inequality estimates exhibit similar time trends with moderate level differences, and these trends are robust to the choice of inequality metrics.

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宏观经济学家的跨部门事实：土耳其的工资，收入和消费不平等

我们使用跨国可比方法，土耳其统计研究所的家庭预算调查以及收入和生活条件调查微型数据集来调查土耳其工资，收入和消费不平等的演变。在2002年至2016年期间，土耳其的工资，收入和消费不平等现象均呈下降趋势。这一观察结果与这段时期内最低工资的快速增长非常吻合。工资不平等估计值显示出强烈的反周期性，而收入和消费不平等则表现出非周期性的时间序列变动。尽管土耳其最近的教育保费估算值与2000年代初的估算值相似，但对最近的性别和经验保费以及剩余工资不平等的估算值却较低。