İpek, Egemen; Sekmen, Özlem

The aim of this study is to determine the consumption behavior of Gumushane University members residence in city center. In the study, data obtained from four-week questionnaires administered to 101 members is analyzed by EASI (Exact Affine Stone Index) Demand System Model. Share of consumption expenditure in budget, Engel curves of individuals and the effects of demographic variables on consumption are estimated by SUR (Seemly Unrelated Regression) method. With these models findings statistically significant relationship between gender, age, marital status, car ownership and share of their consumption expenditures in the budget is determined. Moreover, the share of food and clothing expenditure in budget is low in high-income groups and the share of housing and transportation expenditure considerably high in low-income groups

İpek, Egemen; Sekmen, Özlem

The aim of this study is to analyze the distribution of economic growth and welfare increase that have been performing in Turkey since 2002 among households with different socio-economic profile. For this purpose, the income inequality is decomposed by subgroups according to head of household's demographic variables such as education level, age, gender, occupation, working sector, and living area by calculating the Theil index using the 2003-2012 Household Budget Survey data conducted on resident households in Turkey. Thus the pattern of the income inequality between and within these subgroups could be observed during the corresponding term. The first main findings obtained from this study is that there is no role of the decreasing inequality between male and female on reducing the overall inequality, second is that households earning income from real estate, rental, and business activities is the highest group having income inequality within the group.