CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Dontsova, Olga Viktorovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Economic Growth and Employment Patterns in Turkey |
| Summary | This research aims at exploring the empirical relationship between the real GDP output, GDP growth and employment in Turkey over the period from 2000Q1 to 2013Q4 by using employment elasticity of growth and output in order to determine whether Turkey has been experiencing the problem of “jobless growth”. Employment elasticity is a numerical measurement of the changes in employment induced by the changes in economic growth or economic output. This study examines the correlation between these variables at the level of economy as a whole as well as each sector individually, considering gender, age and educational aspects. Two different methods were used to calculate the employment elasticity such as “simple and descriptive” method and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression method. The results of this research show that there is a positive relationship between the aggregate GDP growth and total employment. Using the real GDP growth as a proxy provides the evidence against the presence of “jobless growth” in Turkey. However, examining the relationship between the real GDP and employment at a more disaggregate level reveals that several sectors as well as demographic groups experience the features of “jobless growth”. |
| Supervisor | Alessia Campolmi |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/dontsova_olga.pdf |
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