Turkish manufacturing sees fluctuating labor productivity trends in the 2000s.
The study looks at how productive the manufacturing and service sectors in Turkey were in the 2000s. They used a method called shift-share analysis to see how things changed. Between 2003 and 2007, labor productivity went down in manufacturing, but it went up between 2010 and 2015. After 2016, productivity increased more slowly in some manufacturing categories and stayed the same in high-tech industries. In the service sector, high-tech services had lower productivity over time, while less-knowledge-intensive services saw a big increase in productivity from 2010 to 2015. The results suggest that industrial policies and changes in the political and economic environment might have played a role in these productivity changes.