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Foreign direct investment and wages: Empirical evidence from Turkey

Doğrudan yabancı yatırımlar ve ücretler: Türkiye ekonomisi için bir uygulama

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191–209
Publication Date
2022-10-18
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According to the empirical results, foreign direct investment has negative but insignificant effects on wages, whereas the volume of trade can contribute positively and significantly to the rise in real wages.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Labor market effects of foreign direct investment have gained an important ground for recipient countries.
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Key Findings & Data:Within this context, this article attempts to delve deeper into these topics and provides empirical answers to the question of whether foreign direct investment has positive and significant impact on Turkish labor market in terms of real wages.
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Conclusion & Impact:According to the empirical results, foreign direct investment has negative but insignificant effects on wages, whereas the volume of trade can contribute positively and significantly to the rise in real wages.
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Abstract

Labor market effects of foreign direct investment have gained an important ground for recipient countries. Within this context, this article attempts to delve deeper into these topics and provides empirical answers to the question of whether foreign direct investment has positive and significant impact on Turkish labor market in terms of real wages. In this study, the effects of foreign direct investment on real wages were examined in Turkey for the period of 1992:1-2008:4 by the help of variance decomposition and impulse response functions of vector autoregression (VAR) model. According to the empirical results, foreign direct investment has negative but insignificant effects on wages, whereas the volume of trade can contribute positively and significantly to the rise in real wages.

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Doğrudan yabancı yatırımların işgücü piyasalarına etkileri son yıllarda ev sahibi ülkeler için önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Özellikle yabancı yatımlar ve ücretler arasındaki etkileşim literatürde önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Ücretlerin yabancı yatırım çekme aracı olarak kullanılması ve yabancı firmaların yerel firmalar üzerinde yarattığı ücret yayılımları etkisi oldukça dikkat çekmiştir. Bu çalışmada, 1992: 1-2008: 4 periyodu için doğrudan yabancı yatırımların Türkiye’de ücretler üzerine etkileri vektör otoregresyon (VAR) modeli- varyans ayrıştırması ve etki tepki fonksiyonları yardımı- kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Yapılan detaylı zaman serisi analizi doğrudan yabancı yatırımların ücretler üzerine negatif fakat anlamsiz etkilerinin olduğuna işaret ederken, ticaretin ücretler üzerine olumlu ve anlamlı etkilerinin olduğunu ortaya çıkarmıştır.

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BAYRAKTAR, B. S., YILDIRIM, K. (2022). Foreign direct investment and wages: Empirical evidence from Turkey. Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 32 - Sayı: 1, 191–209. https://ajindex.com/articles/533089

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