TY - JOUR TI - Economic Nature of Social Inequality, The Impacts of Education and Health Expenditures, and Unemployment on Income Inequality in Turkey and Selected OECD Countries AB - Income inequality is one of the important problems that await solution and discussed in developed countries as well as in developing countries. In this empirical study, the impacts of government education expenditures, health expenditures, and unemployment on income inequality has been investigated using panel data set consisting of total 15 selected OECD countries including Turkey for the period of 2002-2018. The results of the analysis revealed that increases in the ratio of government education expenditures to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and health expenditures to GDP contribute to reducing inequality in income distribution, while increase in unemployment rate increase income inequality for the selected OECD countries. AU - Orhan, Ayhan AU - Şenol, Neslihan PY - 2021 JO - Journal of emerging economies and policy (Online) VL - 6 IS - 2 SN - 2651-5318 SP - 37 EP - 43 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/519091 ER -