Does trade foster employment growth in emerging markets? Evidence from Turkey

Alessia Lo Turco and Daniela Maggioni

No 383, Working Papers from Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali

Abstract: This work investigates the impact of importing, exporting and two-way trading on the firm labour demand in Turkish manufacturing. Adopting multiple propensity score matching techniques and Difference in Difference estimator, we support the positive internationalisation effects on the firm employment growth for an emergent country. Our evidence reveals the existence of complementarity effects between exports and imports, which is strengthened for high trade intensity firms. Furthermore, only high intensity exporting seems to promote the workforce skill upgrading, as measured by the R&D worker share. The disclosed employment effect reflects the large positive impact of firminternationalisation on its production scale.

Keywords: Exporter; Importer; Turkey; Two-way traders; employment; firm growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 F14 F16 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2012-10
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