{"title":"Decentralization Matter of Healthcare and Effect on Regional Healthcare Efficiency: Evidence from Turkey","authors":"Gokce Manavgat, Ayhan Demi̇rci̇","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.02.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.02.12","url":null,"abstract":"The research object of the current study is to examine the impact of regional decentralization model on the performance of public healthcare services in Turkey. The efficiency of public hospitals has been determined by the type of healthcare services, “general healthcare” and “oral-dental healthcare”, with Data Envelopment Analysis at the level of 81 provinces (NUTS-3) for 2014 and 2017. By continuing the transition to decentralization in public health services, the possible effects on the regional health level were analyzed. Notably, this study proposes a two-dimensional approach, one of them is to determine public hospital performance at province level, and the other one is to examine whether the decentralization of health services had a significant effect on the efficiency of bounder (contiguity) provinces other means to catch spillover between performance scores. In the results of the study, the efficiency scores of 81 province hospitals differed significantly according to the provision of service patterns. And the relative efficiency scores are increasing with decentration approaches when is compared 2014 and 2017. Furthermore, there is a positive spatial spillover between every two types of hospital service province unit among public hospitals. This means that the hospital efficiency in the contiguous province has an effect of increasing the efficiency score of the region. This suggests that the decentralization model in public health services may have the potential tool to create a positive impact on the health level in the future if supported by progressive economic and health policies for developing countries.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129827685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earnings Management and Financial Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the Istanbul Stock Exchange","authors":"K. Tuan, Metin Borak","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.02.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.02.17","url":null,"abstract":"Sermaye piyasalarinda yasanan buyuk capli muhasebe skandallari sonrasinda isletmelerin kazanc yonetimi uygulamalari, ozellikle yabanci yatirimci cekmek isteyen gelismekte olan ekonomilerde onem verilmesi gereken bir konu olmustur. Bu ampirik calisma, isletmelerde kazanc yonetimi uygulamalari ile isletmenin finansal performansi arasindaki iliskiyi tespit etmeyi amaclamaktadir. Bu amac dogrultusunda, 2010-2017 yillari arasinda Borsa Istanbul’da islem goren finansal olmayan kuruluslardan elde edilen 1928 firma-yil verisi analiz edilmistir. Arastirmanin bulgulari, isletmelerin kazanc yonetimi uygulamalarina basvurduguna isaret etmektedir. Bulgular ayrica, kazanc yonetimi uygulamalari ile isletmenin finansal performansi arasinda pozitif bir iliski oldugunu desteklemektedir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128597336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sosyoekonomi JournalPub Date : 2020-04-19DOI: 10.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.18
Veli Yılancı, E. Gökçe
{"title":"OECD Ülkelerinde Yakınsama Hipotezinin Geçerliliği: Kalıntılarla Genişletilmiş Panel Fourier SURADF Birim Kök Testi","authors":"Veli Yılancı, E. Gökçe","doi":"10.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.1810.17233/SOSYOEKONOMI.2020.02.18","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismanin amaci Breuer vd. (2001) tarafindan onerilen SURADF birim kok testini yapisal degisim ve kalintilarin normal dagilmama bilgisini dikkate alan yapiya genisleterek OECD ulkeleri icin gelir yakinsamasinin gecerliligini test etmektir. Breuer vd. (2001) tarafindan gelistirilen panel SURADF birim kok testi, Chang vd. (2012) tarafindan yumusak kirilmalara izin verecek sekilde genisletilmistir; bu calismada ise bu denklem sistemine Im ve Schmidt (2008) tarafindan onerilen kalintilarin normal dagilmama bilgisinin de dâhil edildigi yeni bir test onerilmistir. Onerilen bu yeni birim kok testi kullanilarak, secilen OECD ulkeleri icin yakinsama hipotezinin gecerliligi sinanmis ve ele alinan 18 ulkenin sadece yedisinde stokastik yakinsamanin gecerli oldugu sonucuna varilmistir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining Tax Non-Compliance from a Neo-Institutionalist Perspective: Some Lessons from a Public Opinion Survey in Turkey","authors":"A. Kayaoglu, C. Williams","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.05","url":null,"abstract":"Conventionally, those engaging in tax non-compliance are explained as rational economic actors doing so when the benefits outweigh the costs. However, many individuals are still compliant to their tax regimes even when the pay-off from tax evasion is greater than the costs. The result is the emergence of a social actor perspective that gives primacy to tax morale when explaining tax non-compliance. Through the lens of neo-institutionalist theory, this approach argues that citizens behave in ways that reflect the normative, cultural-cognitive and regulatory rules of their institutional environments. To test this theory, we have analyzed a representative micro survey of 2,528 citizens in Turkey. The finding we have obtained in this paper using an econometric analysis is that high tax morale is significantly more likely when there is trust in government (the normative dimension), feeling of belonging to the nation (the cultural-cognitive dimension) and perceptions of the risk and severity of punishment (regulatory-instrumental dimension). It displays the importance of the tax morale approach when explaining and tackling tax non-compliance in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114652282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception towards Drivers of Entrepreneurship: A Cross-cultural Study on the University Students from Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan & Taiwan","authors":"A. Maksüdünov, Samten Jamtshob, Ömürbek Ilimbekov","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.08","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismanin temel amaci ogrencilerin girisimciligi etkileyen faktorlere iliskin algilamalarini kulturlerarasi duzeyde karsilastirmali olarak ele almaktir. Calismanin orneklemini Kirgizistan’da (n=200), Butan’da (n=200) ve Tayvan’da (n=200) egitim almakta olan universite ogrencileri olusturmaktadir. Verilerin toplanmasinda yuz-yuze ve online anket tekniklerinden yararlanilmistir. Verilerin analizinde tanimlayici istatistikler, bagimsiz orneklem T testi ve ANOVA analizleri kullanilmistir. Arastirma sonuclarina gore, Butan ogrencilerinin algilamalarinin diger ulkelerle gore daha yuksek oldugu ortaya cikmistir. Tum ulkeler icin bagimsizlik ogrencileri girisimcilige motive eden en onemli faktor oldugu, diger taraftan en az onemli faktorlerin ulkelere gore farklilik gosterdigi sonucuna ulasilmistir. Kirgizistan icin hukumet destegi son siradayken, Butan icin aile ve yakin cevre faktoru, Tayvan icin ise ekonomik kosullar son sirada cikmistir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of Local Culinary through Gastronomy Tourism","authors":"Serkan Polat, Semra Aktaş-Polat","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.14","url":null,"abstract":"Gastronomi, yiyecegin bilim, sanat, haz ve lezzetle birlesiminden dogmaktadir. Yiyecegin yani sira yiyecegin ait oldugu kulturun deneyimlenmesi de insanlari kirsal alanlara, bolgelere ve ulkelere yoneltmekte ve mutfagi turizm icin onemli bir cekim unsuru haline getirmektedir. Bu makalenin amaci gastronomi turizmi araciligiyla yerel mutfagin donusum surecini gostermektir. Amaca ulasmak icin yapisalcilik yaklasimindan yararlanilarak Levi-Strauss’un kultur ve doga ikileminde yorumladigi mutfak ucgeni ornek model olarak alinmistir. Levi-Strauss, toplumun analizinde yiyecek ve pisirmeye ozel bir onem vermistir. Yiyecegin uc hali olarak tanimladigi cig, pismis ve curumus hali uzerinden toplumsal yapiyi analiz etmistir. Bu model, yerel, hibrit ve sus mutfagindan olusan ve Gastronomi Turizminde Mutfak Ucgeni olarak adlandirilan yeni bir ucgene donusturulerek kulturel ve sanatsal donusum baglaminda degerlendirilmistir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116136540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurgül Evcim, S. Günes̨, Hacer Simay Karaalp-Orhan
{"title":"Factors Influencing The Household Relative Poverty In Turkey: Logistic Regression Analysis","authors":"Nurgül Evcim, S. Günes̨, Hacer Simay Karaalp-Orhan","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismada, Turkiye’de toplumsal refah artisini engelleyen hanehalki goreli yoksullugunun, boyutlari ve temel belirleyici faktorleri incelenmektedir. Bu amacla analizde Turkiye Istatistik Kurumu (TUIK) (2017) yili Gelir ve Yasam Kosullari Arastirmasi mikro veri seti kullanilmistir. Ilk olarak hanehalki medyan fert gelirinin %60’ina gore yoksulluk siniri hesaplanmistir. Bagimli degiskenin yoksulluk sinirina gore yoksul ve yoksul olmayanlar olarak ele alindigi Ikili Lojistik Regresyon analizinde, hanehalki demografik ozellikleri, isgucu piyasasi ve cografi ozellikleri iceren aciklayici degiskenler kullanilmistir. Elde edilen sonuclara gore Turkiye’de egitim duzeyi, yas, Sosyal Guvenlik Kurumu’na kayitli olma ve sanayi sektorundeki istihdam yoksulluk riskini azaltirken issizlik, yevmiyeli calisma, evli olma ve hane buyuklugu yoksulluk riskini artirmaktadir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130413640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Security Membership and Saving: The Turkish Case","authors":"Çağaçan Değer, Elif Erer","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.15","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calisma Turkiye’de tasarruf oranlarinda kambur bir profil olup olmadigini inceleyerek tasarrufun mikro temellerini arastirmaktadir. Hanehalki Butce Anketleri kullanilarak bir yapay panel veri seti olusturulmustur. Daha sonra yas-kohort-zaman ayristirmasi ile Turkiye’de tasarruf oraninin yasa bagli davranisi incelenmistir. Analiz, sosyal guvenlik sistemi uyeligine gore olusturulan alt orneklemler icin tekrarlanmistir. Kesikli inceleme de yapilarak analiz derinlestirilmistir. Kambur bir profilin varligi teyid edilmistir fakat kambur profilin varligi ile sosyal guvenlik uyeligi arasinda duzenli bir baginti gozlemlenmemistir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121312489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Health Financing on Health Systems’ Performance: An Assessment for European Union and Candidate Countries","authors":"Şenol Demirci, Murat Konca, Gülnur Ilgün","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.13","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismada, Avrupa Birligi (AB)’ne uye ve aday ulkelerin saglik sistemleri performansi karsilastirilmasi amaclanmistir. Bu kapsamda calismada iki asamali analiz yontemi izlenmis olup birinci asamada karsilastirilan ulkelerin saglik hizmetleri performansini belirlemek icin Veri Zarflama Analizi (VZA) kullanilmistir. Ikinci asamada ise, ulkelerin saglik sistemlerini finanse etmede kullandiklari finansman yonteminin elde edilen VZA skorlarina istatistiki acidan anlamli etki edip etmedigi ortaya konulmustur. Bu kapsamda Tobit regresyon modelinden faydalanilmistir. Bu modelde donusturulmus VZA skoru bagimli degisken, ulkelerin saglik sistemlerini finanse etmede benimsedikleri finansman modeli ise bagimsiz degisken olarak alinmistir. Analiz sonuclarina gore, saglik sistemi finansmaninda benimsenen modelin ne oldugu saglik sistemi verimliligine istatistiki acidan anlamli etki etmektedir; Beveridge Modelini benimsemek saglik sistemi verimliligine istatistiki acidan olumlu etki etmektedir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"91 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123118807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fiscal Space Analysis In Terms Of Turkey’s Domestic Debt","authors":"Süleyman Kasal, Özay Özpençe","doi":"10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"Kriz sonrasi maliye politikalarinin kullanimini sinirlayan yuksek kamu borclari bircok ulkenin mali alanini etkilemistir. Sonucta, bu ulkeler mali alan yaratmak icin yapisal ekonomik reformlari benimsemek zorunda kalmislardir. 2000’li yillarda benimsenen maliye politikasi Turkiye’de farkli sonuclar yaratmistir. Bu politikalarin esas sonuclari, butce aciklari, kamu borclari ve faiz odemelerindeki muazzam dususlerdir. Boylece Turkiye mali alan yaratmistir. Bu calisma cercevesinde, ilk olarak mali alan tanimlanmistir. Daha sonrasinda 2000:C1-2015:C4 arasi donemde Turkiye icin mali alan hesaplanmistir. Tahminler maliye politikalarinin kullanimi icin yeterli mali alan olmasina ragmen, kamu borclarinin artisinin boylesi politikalarin kullanimini sinirlayabilecegini ve mali yorgunluga sebep olabilecegini gostermektedir.","PeriodicalId":113431,"journal":{"name":"Sosyoekonomi Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131900614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}