One of the important features of the Turkish labor market is that public employment traditionally constitutes a large share of total employment. This share was 33 percent in 1990 and declined to 28 percent in 1996. Public administration employment constituted about 17 percent of the non-agricultural employment and about 10 percent of total employment in 1998. Of this about one-third were teachers and other educational staff.
This paper provides new information about public sector employment and wages in Turkey and looks specifically at the following areas:
- central government, state owned enterprise and local administration employment
- educational distribution of civil servants and state owned enterprise employees
- wages of civil servants, the state owned enterprise workers and those in the private sector
- public and private manufacturing sector wages
- real personnel expenditures of the central and local governments
- the share of personnel costs in the state budget and as a percentage of GNP
Where possible, international comparisons are provided. The paper makes the following claims:
-
public administration employment has shown an increasing trend over time. However, the rate of growth was slower in the 1980s due to the government emphasis on reducing the size of the public sector
-
employment in State Economic Enterprises has been declining since the late 1980s whereas employment in local administrations has been increasing over time
-
there have been marked declines in the percentages of general administrative services, support services and technical services while there have been marked increases in the percentages of religious services, security services and health services
-
public and private sector wages have fluctuated since the 1980s
GDNet originated | 
