Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2020
Abstract
Historical evolution of industrial economic activity has been central to economic policy in developing economies. An emerging line of literature discussed that, tendency for falling manufacturing based industrial economic activity can signal a problem for developing countries. Evidence shows that developing countries' growth rates fall below their potential growth and unemployment rates strikes to relatively high levels if deindustrialization pattern is premature and early unlike the experiences observed for advanced countries. Given continuous structural change and sizable regional disparities in Turkey, we examine the regional dimension and discuss the influence of regional deindustrialization for convergence of Turkish regions. Our analyses from conditional Markov Chain analyses show that manufacturing employment influences regional income distribution, as chances to move to higher income classes is conditional on the extent of regional manufacturing employment. These results show that geographical distribution of (de)industrialization is non-random in Turkey, rather a historical choice of economic policy.
Journal Title
Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies
ISSN
2334-282X
Publisher
Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago
Volume
22
Issue
1
Recommended Citation
Karahasan, Burhan Can, "Regional Deindustrialization in Turkey". Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, electronic journal, 22, 1, Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago, 2020, http://www.luc.edu/orgs/meea/
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