ICT and employment generation: evidence from Turkish manufacturing

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...

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Published in:Applied economics letters 2019-07, Vol.26 (13), p.1053-1057
Main Authors: Kılıçaslan, Yılmaz, Töngür, Ünal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communications technology
Economic analysis
Economic theory
Economics
Employment
ICT
Information technology
Labor demand
Manufacturing
manufacturing industry
Turkey
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1350-4851
1466-4291
DOI:10.1080/13504851.2018.1529391