Tatar Taşpınar, Emine Zeren

Profile URL:
Job Title:Dr. Öğr. Üyesi
Email Address:taspinare@mef.edu.tr
Main Affiliation:04.01. Department of Economics
Status: Current Staff
ORCID:ORCID Profile0000-0002-1279-1853
Scopus ID:Scopus Profile56741366900
YÖK Akademik: 4F43A85F2630CF76
Google Scholar:Google Scholar ProfileQUiH184AAAAJ
Web of Science ID:Web of Science ProfileKVB-1666-2024
Name Variants:
Emine Zeren Tatar Taşpınar Tatar Taşpınar, E.
Full item page
Author of Publication: search.filters.isAuthorOfPublication.4bc922ab-6d99-4b15-86f5-de72c2e83337

Scholarly Output Search Results

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 1
    Revisiting Labor Productivity Growth in Turkey: Accounting for Relative Prices, Structural Change, and Sectoral Dynamics
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2026) Taspinar, Zeren Tatar; Atiyas, Izak; Tatar Taşpınar, Zeren
    This study decomposes aggregate labor productivity growth in Turkey from 1999 to 2023 using a chain-linked gross domestic product (GDP) series with an exactly additive decomposition method. Traditionally, this growth has been decomposed into two components: productivity growth within sectors and labor reallocation across sectors. Using the chain-linked GDP series introduces a third component: changes in relative sectoral prices. Although these relative price changes cancel out at the aggregate level, they influence sectoral contributions to overall labor productivity by altering each sector's weight in total output. Incorporating them, therefore, provides a more comprehensive view of sectoral dynamics by capturing their contributions to aggregate productivity growth. On average, the contribution of structural change slightly exceeds that of the within component. However, both the magnitude and composition of contributions vary considerably across sub-periods. During crisis years, structural change contributed positively while the within-sector component was negative. In contrast, during non-crisis periods, aggregate labor productivity growth declined because the structural-change component weakened persistently and nearly vanished after 2018, despite a positive though limited within-sector component. At the sector level, construction, finance and real estate, community, personal, and government services, and transport and communication largely account for the slowdown, while manufacturing's contribution stayed steady; its composition shifted away from within productivity across periods.