Abstract:

In this study, the work efficiency and employment relationships in the Turkish agricultural sector were studied. First of all, the land industry in the Turkish economy has been evaluated using data on the location of the agricultural sector, production and employment, and also the course of labour efficiency in agriculture has been addressed comparatively with some other countries in which it is at what level. Then the relationship between employment efficiency and employment was experimentally tested using the added value and employment data per person working at fixed prices in the Turkish agricultural sector. In the Vector Otoregresive model, the analysis based on the Johansen co-integration test used annual data for the period 1988-2016. The analysis of the employment efficiency and employment relationship has been done for the total number of employees in the agricultural sector as well as for the employment of women and men in this sector. Data from 2016 indicate that agricultural sector’s share in total production and employment was respectively 6.93% and 19.50%. These data indicate that labour efficiency in the agricultural sector is relatively low in the economy compared to other sectors. It is also seen that the employment of large and free family workers of small family enterprises in the Turkish agricultural sector is intense. This refers to the corporate structure that causes the work efficiency to be low. The results of the Johansen co-integration test in the study support the existence of a long-term balance between work efficiency and the three employment indicators. Accordingly, a reduction of 1% in the total employment in the agricultural sector, the reduction of 1% in the employment of women, the reduction of 1% in the employment of men and the reduction of 1% in the employment efficiency, measured by added value per employee, resulted in an increase of 4.46%, 6.71%, and 2.27% respectively.