Growth of factor productivity in the Turkish manufacturing industry at provincial level

Metin Karadag, A. Özlem Önder and Ertuğrul Deli-super-˙ktas

Regional Studies, 2005, vol. 39, issue 2, 213-223

Abstract: Karadağ, M., Onder, A. O. and DElIktas, E. (2005) Growth of factor productivity in the Turkish manufacturing industry at provincial level, Regional Studies 39 , 213-223. This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two components, namely efficiency change and technical change. The results show that many of the provinces show improvement in TFP on average for the public sector, while in the private sector, only half the provinces show growth in TFP. Overall evidence of catching up can be observed only in the private sector. The results also reveal that technical progress plays the main role in productivity growth.

Keywords: Total factor productivity; Data envelopment analysis; Malmquist productivity index; Turkish manufacturing industry; Private and public sectors; Regional performance; Productivite globale; Analyse des donnees par enveloppement; Indice de la productivite du type Malmquist; Industrie turque; Secteurs prive et public; Performance regionale; Gesamtfaktorenleistung; Datenumklammerungsanalyse; Malmquist Leistungsindex herstellende; Industrie der Turkei Private und offentliche Sektoren; Regionalleistung; Productividad factorial total; Industria manufacturera turca; Analisis envolvente de datos; Sector publico y privado; Indice de productividad de Malmquist; Rendimiento regional; JEL classification: C43; D24; L60; R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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