{"id":13324,"date":"2026-08-28T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:33:38","slug":"a-tale-of-two-methodologies-the-impact-of-inflation-on-wages-in-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/2026\/08\/a-tale-of-two-methodologies-the-impact-of-inflation-on-wages-in-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two methodologies: The impact of inflation on wages in T\u00fcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luis Pinedo Caro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Controversy has surrounded T\u00dc\u0130K\u2019s consumer price index since 2019, with a group of independent researchers creating their own methodology (ENAG) and entering into a cycle of legal battles and public complaints together with T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s main opposition party and other stakeholders that is still ongoing in 2026. This brief examines the impact of these competing methodologies on wage evolution in the country. It finds that T\u00dc\u0130K\u2019s and ENAG\u2019s deflated series produce sharply divergent pictures of real wage developments, and introduces a third, independent approach \u2014 converting wages to euros and deflating them using the Euro Area CPI \u2014 whose results suggest that the true evolution of purchasing power likely lies between the two; there was real wage erosion for a while, but purchasing power was recovered after the return to an orthodox monetary policy since 2023.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>doc. <a href=\"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ResearchBrief284.docx\">ResearchBrief284<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>pdf. <a href=\"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ResearchBrief284.pdf\">ResearchBrief284<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Pinedo Caro Controversy has surrounded T\u00dc\u0130K\u2019s consumer price index since 2019, with a group of independent researchers creating their own methodology (ENAG) and entering into a cycle of legal battles and public complaints together with T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s main opposition party and other stakeholders that is still ongoing in 2026. This brief examines the impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,278,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-research","category-publications","category-research-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13329,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}