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An investigation of income proﬁles in Turkey
(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.) Aktuğ, Emrehan.; Torul, Orhan.
In this paper, I empirically investigate the labor income proﬁles in Turkey over age, gender, educational attainment and public-private sector employment. I ﬁrst document that the average labor income proﬁle over age is quite ﬂat yet non-decreasing in Turkey, contrary to the observed hump-shaped proﬁle in developed countries. This pattern is the result of aggregation, as there is a considerable degree of heterogeneity in income proﬁles over the highlighted characteristics. I show that the private sector income proﬁles display a higher degree of cross-sectional variation across individuals over the same age groups, especially among university graduates. Having established the results, I turn to verifying my predictions employing both OLS with different datasets and a pseudo-panel estimation approach via the synthetic cohorts I generate. My econometric ﬁndings provide robustness and verify the validity of the signiﬁcance of my ﬁndings.