İnovasyonun İstihdam Düzeyine Etkisi: Türkiye İçin Bir ARDL Sınır Testi Yaklaşımı

Teknolojik ilerlemelerin ivme kazanması ile birlikte iktisadi literatürde inovasyon ve istihdam ilişkisinin yönü ve boyutları konusunda birçok araştırma yapılmıştır. Yapılan araştırmalardan elde edilen sonuçlar, inovasyon ve istihdam ilişkisi bakımından araştırmacılar arasında tam bir fikir birliğine ulaşılmadığını göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada Türkiye ekonomisi ekseninde inovasyon faaliyetlerinin istihdam düzeyi üzerindeki etkileri ARDL Sınır Testi yöntemi kullanılarak araştırılmıştır. Değişkenlere ilişkin yıllık veriler 1990-2018 dönemini kapsamaktadır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, yüksek teknolojili ürün ihracatı, Ar-Ge harcamaları, işletme sayısındaki değişim parametreleri istihdam düzeyine pozitif katkı yapmaktadır. Buna karşılık, beklentilerin aksine, yurt içi patent başvuru miktarı istihdam düzeyini negatif etkiler görünmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

İnovasyon, İstihdam, ARDL, Türkiye

The Effect of Innovation on Employment: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach for Turkey

Since the acceleration of technological advancements, many studies have been done in the economics literature on the direction and extent of the relationship between innovation and employment. The findings of these studies indicate that there is no unanimity among the researchers on an innovation-employment relationship. Based on annual data for the 1990-2018 period, this paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment in the Turkish economy using the ARDL bounds testing approach. The results obtained from the analysis show that exports of high-tech products, R&D expenditures, and changes in the number of firms positively affect employment, whereas, contrary to expectations, the number of domestic patent applications seems to affect it negatively.

Keywords:

Innovation, Employment, ARDL, Turkey,

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