Transformation of the Turkish welfare regime: the role of the individual pension system and its effect on women's welfare

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Şahin, Şule
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The aim of the thesis is to analyze the transformation of the Turkish welfare regime in the framework of the social security reforms and the effect of the individual pension system on both this transformation and women’s welfare considering the gender gap in retirement. While there is a growing literature on Turkey’s social security reform, there are only few studies on the gender dimension of social security and the gender effects of the reform. This study aims to contribute to this literature by examining the gender gap in recently introduced individual pension system (2003) in Turkey from a sociological perspective. The literature review focuses mainly on Esping-Andersen’s welfare regime typology and its critics to categorize the current welfare regime of Turkey. The Southern European welfare regimes are examined particularly to construct a theoretical framework for the Turkish welfare regime and its transformation. Furthermore, the literature on gender inequality and social security is examined to discuss the gender gap in private pension systems. This thesis based upon some statistical and actuarial analyses to explore the gender gap. By using ‘actual data’ the effects of some sociodemographic and socio-economic factors on the participation and the contribution rate to the individual pension system are examined. Besides, gender gap in benefits that arise from the defined contribution schemes in a serious of projection using a stochastic actuarial model is analyzed. The study is supported by the interviews made with three experts and decision makers about these issues.
Sociology., Gender Gap.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610210/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18038
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ş. Şahin, “Transformation of the Turkish welfare regime: the role of the individual pension system and its effect on women’s welfare,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.
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