Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46779 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1997
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 843
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The economic implications and the income distribution effects of the CU between Turkey and the EU have been studied by applying a general equilibrium model to the Turkish economy. The numerical results show that the CU is not trade diverting. Most importantly, urban (rural) groups are better (worse) off in the scenario with fixed wages, while urban (rural) groups are worse (better) off in the scenario with flexible wages. Despite the owners of basic skilled labour being better off than both the owners of skilled labour and the owners of capital, overall income inequality rises in the scenario with fixed wages, suggesting that analysis on income inequality based on the functional distribution of income and the full employment assumption (i.e. Stolper-Samuelson theorem), might be misleading. In addition, in the case of fixed real wages, the model predicts the creation of 148000 new jobs. Sensitivity analysis seems to support this overall conclusion.
Subjects: 
Customs Union
Income distribution
Employment,AGE analysis
Turkey
JEL: 
D58
F14
F15
F17
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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