The Impact of Public Capital Stock on Regional Convergence in Turkey

Önder, A. Özlem; Deliktaş, Ertuğrul; Karadağ, Metin

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“…In Turkey, empirical studies concerning convergence emerged after the 1990s. Similar to the literature on other countries, while some of the studies find evidence of convergence among the regions or provinces of Turkey (Filiztekin 1998;Yıldırım 2005;Yıldırım and Öcal 2006;Kılıçaslan and Özatağan 2007;Yıldırım, Öcal, and Özyıldırım 2008;Önder, Deliktaş, and Karadağ 2010;Zeren and Yılancı 2011;Özgül and Karadağ 2015), some of them do not (Temel, Tansel, and Albersen 1999;Gezici and Hewings 2004;Karaca 2004;Temel, Tansel, and Güngör 2005;Aldan and Gaygısız 2006;Abdioğlu and Uysal 2013). Most of the convergence studies for Turkey address the convergence issue in aggregated terms except for Filiztekin (1998), Temel, Tansel, and Albersen (1999), Temel, Tansel, and Güngör (2005), and Baypınar (2010).…”

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confidence: 62%

Convergence of Agricultural Sector, Non-Agricultural Sector, Public Expenditures and Migration in Turkey: A Spatial Panel Approach

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2020

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Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the spatial dimensions of the convergence process in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, public expenditures, and migration in 81 provinces of Turkey for the 2008-2018 period. Design/Methodology/Approach: For this purpose, spatial panel data estimation methodology with Driscoll-Kraay estimator is used to capture the effect of space, which is a necessary condition to prevent biased estimates of convergence. Findings: It is clear that structural problems in the agricultural sector restrict interaction with the non-agricultural sector in the provinces and this limits the convergence effect on the agricultural sector. Limited convergence in agricultural sector causes continued income gap between rich and poor provinces in Turkey. In addition to this, migration from the agricultural sector to the non-agricultural sector has an impact on the convergence of both sectors between provinces. Moreover, public expenditures appears to have no direct, indirect or total effect on both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Originality/Value: To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to show the spatial dimensions of convergence at sectoral level for provinces of Turkey with relation to public expenditures and migration across agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 62%

Convergence of Agricultural Sector, Non-Agricultural Sector, Public Expenditures and Migration in Turkey: A Spatial Panel Approach

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2020

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“…Despite the fact that there are some studies analyzing regional convergence in Turkey, there appear to be a few studies related to which factors may affect regional convergence as far as Turkey is concerned (See Gezici & Hewings, 2004;Yildirim, 2005;Önder et al 2010;Karaalp and Erdal 2012). On the other hand, to the authors' best 40 knowledge, there appears to be no study to investigate conditional convergence by using welfare indicators regarding the Turkish regions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding this, there have been a number of studies concerning regional convergence in Turkey (see, for example, Filiztekin, 1998;Tansel and Gungor, 1998;Karaca 2004;Yildirim, 2005;Kılıçaslan and Ozatagan 2007;Önder et al 2010;Karaalp and Erdal 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, regional convergence has gained a growing attention and there have been considerable amount of empirical studies in this area. These studies have mainly focused on the evolution of economic disparities and the process of convergence between the more developed and less developed countries or between the regions in a country (see, for example, Baumol, 1986;Barro and Sala-i-Martin 1991;Mankiw et al 1992;Loewy and Papel, 1996;Kılıçaslan and Ozatagan 2007;Önder et al 2010).…”

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Regional Convergence in Turkey Regarding Welfare Indicators

Özgül¹,

Karadağ²

2015

Sosyoekonomi

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The main aim of this study is to investigate conditional convergence by using welfare indicators at NUTS 2 level in Turkey. We use cross-section analysis for the 1990-2001 time period for the aim of the study. Three growth indicators were used as the dependent variable, which are per capita GDP, per person employed GDP and development index. Hence, the effects of illiterate population rate, high school graduated rate, public capital per person, population growth rate on convergence were investigated. The results of this study show that there is some evidence of unconditional convergence in Turkey in general. Moreover, the results indicate that socio-economic indicators have no effect on regional growth in general. Only the population growth rate which is used in the analysis and per capita GDP as dependent variable has negative and significant results. Keywords: Regional Development, Conditional Convergence, Cross-section Analyzes, Welfare Indicators. JEL Classification Codes : R11, R15, C51. ÖzBu çalışmanın temel amacı Türkiye'de Düzey 2 bölgeleri açısından refah göstergelerini kullanarak koşullu yakınsamayı incelemektir. Çalışmanın amacı için 1990-2001 dönemleri için kesit veri analizi kullanılmıştır. Bu çalışmada bağımlı değişken olarak, kişi başına GSYİH, işçi başına GSYİH ve gelişme endeksi olmak üzere üç büyüme ölçütü kullanılmıştır. Böylece bölgelerdeki okuma yazma bilmeyen nüfus oranı, lise veya lise dengi meslek okulu mezunlarının oranı, kişi başına kamu sermayesi ve nüfus artış hızı gibi değişkenlerin bölgesel farklılıklarının azaltılmasında, bir rolü olup olmadığı incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonuçları Türkiye'de genel olarak koşullu yakınsama için bazı kanıtlar olduğunu göstermektedir. Ayrıca, çalışma sonuçları sosyo-ekonomik göstergelerin genel olarak bölgesel büyüme üzerine etkisi olmadığını göstermektedir. Bağımsız değişken olarak yalnızca nüfus büyüme oranı ve kişi başına GSYİH negatif ve anlamlı sonuca sahiptir.

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“…In 1985, while the population of Izmir was tripled and increased to 1,306,747, the number of cities between 100,000 and 500,000 was 4, between 50,000 and 100,000 was 7, and between 10,000 and 50,000 was 40, the continuity of the urban hierarchy was interrupted by the lack of the layer of cities between 500,000 and 1,000,000 which means the growth of Izmir beyond the capacity of the region due to its growing global and national trade relationships (Önder, Deliktaş, & Karadağ, 2010) (Figure 9) and thus increasing in-migration.…”

Section: Aegean Regionmentioning

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Development of urban hierarchies at the country and regional levels in Turkey

Kaya¹,

Dökmecí²

2017

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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the hierarchical distribution of different city size groups at the country and regional level between 1945 and 2015 in Turkey. During this period, previous studies have illustrated that human mobility played an important role for the physical and socio-economic transformation of cities and regions. At the country level, first, while the growth rate of the number of smaller cities was higher than the others, the growth rate of population was the highest in the large cities. However, later, despite the population increase, the number of small cities was decreased due to transformation of economy from rural to industrial. During the post-modern era, globalization contributed even further the growth of large cities. As a result, hierarchical distribution of different size cities according to regions reveals the wide gap with respect to urbanization between the East and the West of the country. While the metropolitan cities are over urbanized in the urban hierarchy due to globalization, some of the regions in the East do not have large cities due to lack of economic development and higher out-migration rate. Mobility of capital and the people from the East to the West do not allow the full-fledged development of the urban hierarchy in the Black Sea and the East Anatolia Regions. This results in shortage of jobs and thus it becomes a vicious cycle for underdevelopment.

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The Impact of Public Capital Stock on Regional Convergence in Turkey

Cited by 22 publications

References 33 publications

Convergence of Agricultural Sector, Non-Agricultural Sector, Public Expenditures and Migration in Turkey: A Spatial Panel Approach

Convergence of Agricultural Sector, Non-Agricultural Sector, Public Expenditures and Migration in Turkey: A Spatial Panel Approach

Regional Convergence in Turkey Regarding Welfare Indicators

Development of urban hierarchies at the country and regional levels in Turkey

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