Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81697 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 2008/1
Publisher: 
Turkish Economic Association, Ankara
Abstract (Translated): 
This study first provides an outline of Kaldor's growth model and then tests its relevance to the economic experience of Turkey during the period 1963-2005 by using cointegration and causality tests. Kaldor's first law states that manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, whereas the second proposition, also known as Verdoorn's law, asserts that there is a strong positive casual relationship between manufacturing productivity growth and output growth, due to static and dynamic increasing returns to scale. Kaldor's third law purports that overall growth is positively correlated to employment growth in manufacturing output, and negatively correlated to employment in non-manufacturing sectors. The empirical results, regardless of the specification and estimation techniques employed, suggest that the models can partly explain the developments in the economy to a certain degree.
Subjects: 
Kaldor‘s Law
Industrial Output
Employment
Productivity
Growth
JEL: 
O41
O11
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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