Özet:

The outward oriented and export led growth strategies followed after the 1980s in Turkish economy have boomed the exports and changed the type of the exported items. In this manner, labour-intensive textile and clothing weighted exportation were replaced by technology-intensive motor vehicles and equipment weighted products. This structural transformation in export has unavoidably affected the amount of human capital used in export sector. In parallel fashion, it is possible that the human capital might affect export, boosting productivity. This study elaborates on the relationships between human capital and export as well as export-growth and human capital-growth relationships, which have been studied extensively. The relationships among variables were investigated using Toda-Yamamoto causality tests covering a period from 1980 to 2007. The findings reveal unidirectional causality from export to human capital. It follows from this that, in accordance with the structural transformation in Turkish economy, more human capital is needed.

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