Yatay kesit veriler ışığında Türkiye?de ilçeler itibariyle istihdam büyümesi: Mekânsal inceleme

Researchers have been studying urban growth and its underlying factors for the last few decades. A considerable portion of this literature is devoted to understanding the role of human capital in the urban employment growth. An increasing interest in spatial econometrics, popularized by Anselin (1988) paves the way for new studies focusing on the spillovers among the urban areas. This paper contributes to the literature by studying the relationship between human capital and employment growth in Turkish districts over the period 1990-2000 using spatial econometric analysis. We employ a maximum likelihood approach since the data indicates spatial dependence in dependent variables which leads the biased and inconsistent OLS estimates. The results indicate that human capital stock and initial share of manufacturing in total employment is positively associated with employment growth. However, the determinants of the employment growth are not limited to local attributes only. Significant positive coefficient of spatial dependence variable suggests that employment growth in a district is positively related to human capital in its neighboring districts.