Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Doğuş Üniversitesi Dergisi, cilt.24, sa.2, ss.81-105, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between employment intensity and growth in Turkey’s manufacturing and service sectors via taking into consideration the Eurostat technology classification for the period between 2003 and 2015. Relying on a - Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function, employment demand functions are estimated for different manufacturing sub sectors with different technology levels and service sectors with different information content. The results reveal that real wages are the main determinant of employment demand with a negative coefficient, in line with the related literature. Employment elasticities of output have been positive and statistically significant, except for the medium-low (ML) technology sub sectors. Manufacturing sub sectors has relatively low and insignificant coefficients which could be considered as a weak sign of jobless growth. The interest rate seems to be negative and statistically significant. On the other hand, we did not find any significant relationship between inflation (inf) and employment demand except for less knowledge-based service (LKIS) sectors.