ICT and employment generation: evidence from Turkish manufacturing

Kilicaslan Y., TÖNGÜR Ü.

APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS, cilt.26, sa.13, ss.1053-1057, 2019 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1529391
  • Dergi Adı: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1053-1057
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Employment, ICT, manufacturing industry, Turkey, INNOVATION, WORKERS, DEMAND
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study is said to be the first attempt in exploring the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) capital on employment generation/destruction in Turkish manufacturing industry by using labour demand estimation framework. The analysis is based on firm-level data, which includes all firms employing 20 or more employees in Turkish manufacturing for the period 2003-2013. Our findings based on system GMM estimations show that ICT has employment-enhancing effects in Turkish manufacturing. Moreover, our results provide the evidence that tangible ICT capital has stronger employment generation impact than that of intangible ICT capital in medium- and low-tech industries.