Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry

This paper examines the relation between import substitution, labour productivity and industrial competitiveness. The data used in the analysis are obtained from UNIDO Industrial Demand Supply (2013) and UNIDO Industrial Statistics (2013) databases and cover the period of 1981-2001. Our results show...

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Main Authors: Yılmaz KILIÇASLAN, Ilhom TEMUROV
Format: Article
Language:Turkish
Published: Usak University 2016-07-01
Series:Optimum Ekonomi ve Yönetim Bilimleri Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/222756
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description This paper examines the relation between import substitution, labour productivity and industrial competitiveness. The data used in the analysis are obtained from UNIDO Industrial Demand Supply (2013) and UNIDO Industrial Statistics (2013) databases and cover the period of 1981-2001. Our results show that Turkish economy has really left import substitution after 1980. However, we found significant share of import substitution in total production in professional and scientific equipment, transportation equipment, electrical machinery, miscellaneous petroleum products, industrial chemicals industries and petroleum refineries in Korea especially in the 1990s. Our findings based on unbalanced dynamic panel data estimations showed that import substitution did not enhance labour productivity in manufacturing industry of both Korea and Turkey. However, we found that import substitution affects industrial competitiveness positively in both Korea and Turkey. Finally, we found in this study that while Korean manufacturing industry competitiveness is closely associated with labour productivity, competitiveness of Turkish manufacturing industry depends on the factors such as exchange rates, wage differentials rather than labour productivity.
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spellingShingle Yılmaz KILIÇASLAN
Ilhom TEMUROV
Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
Optimum Ekonomi ve Yönetim Bilimleri Dergisi
Productivity
Competitiveness
Import Substitution
Manufacturing
Turkey
Korea
title Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
title_full Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
title_fullStr Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
title_full_unstemmed Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
title_short Import Substitution, Productivity and Competitiveness: Evidence from Korean and Turkish Manufacturing Industry
title_sort import substitution productivity and competitiveness evidence from korean and turkish manufacturing industry
topic Productivity
Competitiveness
Import Substitution
Manufacturing
Turkey
Korea
url http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/222756
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