Zeynep Sümeyra BAKIR, Senem ÇAKMAK ŞAHİN

DAVRANIŞSAL İKTİSAT PERSPEKTİFİNDEN EMEK ARZI ANALİZİ

İktisat yazınında son yıllarda öne çıkan davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımı tüketici teorisi, oyun teorisi, finansal piyasalar, yatırım ve tüketim davranışları, karar alma süreçleri, kamu politikaları gibi birçok alanda etki alanını genişletmektedir. Davranışsal finans, davranışsal kamu politikaları, davranışsal oyun teorisi bu anlamda davranışsal iktisadın geliştirici etkisinin çıktıları olarak ifade edilebilir. Emek piyasasının davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımı üzerinden ele alınması alana dair anlayışın gelişimi açısından önemlidir. Emek piyasası geniş kapsamlı bir araştırma alanı olduğundan çalışmanın kapsamı emek arzı ile sınırlandırılmıştır. Bu bakımdan çalışmanın amacı davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımı çerçevesinde emek arzını neoklasik iktisat yaklaşımı ile karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz etmek ve ileri araştırmalara katkı sağlamaktır. Çalışma eleştirel bir literatür incelemesi niteliğine sahiptir. Çalışmada (i) emek arzı kararlarında tam rasyonelliğin geçerli olmadığı (ii) emek piyasasında davranışsal ve bilişsel yanlılıkların söz konusu olduğu (iii) davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının emek arzı davranışlarını ve karar süreçlerini anlamaya dair önemli katkılar sunduğu (iv) davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının emek alanındaki teorileri iyileştirme ve alternetif teoriler geliştirme potansiyeli taşıdığı (v) emek ekonomisinin davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının entegrasyonuna açık olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Emek ekonomisi, Davranışsal iktisat, Emek arzı, Rasyonalite, Davranışsal emek ekonomisi

A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE ON LABOR SUPPLY ANALYSIS

The behavioral economics approach expands its domains in many areas such as consumer theory, game theory, financial markets, decision-making processes, and public policies. Behavioral finance, behavioral public policies, behavioral game theory may expressed as the outputs of the effect of behavioral economics. The consideration of the labor market through the behavioral economics approach is important for the development of the understanding of the field. The purpose of this paper is to point out the potentials of behavioral labor economics and analyze the labor supply within the framework of behavioral economics. In this regard, the scope of the study is limited by the labor supply. The findings of the study as follow: (i) full rationality is not valid to an accurate analysis in terms of labor supply decisions (ii) there are behavioral and cognitive biases in the labor market (iii) the behavioral economics approach has important contributions to understanding decision processes and behaviors of the labor supply (iv) it has a potential to improve theories in the field of labor and to develop alternative theories, (v) the labor economy is open to integrating and adapting to the approach of behavioral economics.

Keywords:

Labor economics, Behavioral economics, Labor supply, Rationality, Behavioral labor economics,

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