Mekansal ekonomi üzerine ampirik makaleler

Intra-industry trade (IIT) approach is widely believed to entail low transitional adjustment costs in relative production factors. First chapter of thesis examines labor adjustment costs of EU industries with trade relation of NAFTA on industry-level via the perspective of IIT over 36 months period. Results have shown that high economic performance and dominant free trade approach impact trade blocks positively but a financial turmoil cripples IIT by lowering bilateral trade amounts. Second chapter aims to capture marginal IIT levels of trade of industry sectors in 25 developing countries with 34 developed countries and compare its adjustment costs pattern. Evaluating MIIT patterns in diversifying adjustment costs is main approach for examining the correlation between trade liberalization and adjustment costs. Dual index application with newly introduced graphical resolution, Trade Concentration Space (TCS) are crucial for robust results of developing countries by identifying industries as contracting, neutral and expanding via trade liberalization process. Third chapter focuses on the geographical region determinants as a weight matrix. The main motive is here to move beyond singular two-fold relations and aim to confine the effect of IIT on job turnover while monitoring the rest of relevant variables by using newly introduced weight matrix. A spatial two-stage least squares model (S2SLS) is applied for measuring MIIT relation between regional trade pattern and labor market adjustment costs. In first stage, Euclidean distance spatial model is applied to calculate regional weights in EU-28 and in second stage the distinctive impact of variables have shown in empirical results.