Government Support and Employment of Manufacturing SMEs

Year 2024, Volume: 58 Issue: 1, 73 - 90, 31.01.2024

Ali Recai Direkçi , Abdullah Tirgil

https://doi.org/10.51551/verimlilik.1314520

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to examine how government incentives affect SME employment in Türkiye's manufacturing sector.
Methodology: The dataset used in this study was derived from a survey conducted by a privately owned London-based company with the assistance of Türkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology. Ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares regression techniques were used to analyze the relationship between government incentives and employment.
Findings: In the analysis, we found that between 2013 and 2016, jobs were created by Turkish manufacturing SMEs with the use of state assistance. Firm-level characteristics, including firms' age, capacity utilization rate, and innovative activities, were also found to have a substantial impact on SME employment.
Originality: Our study is the first to examine the impact of incentives on employment in manufacturing SMEs in Türkiye using a micro dataset administered to 10.063 manufacturing firms by the Ministry of Industry and Technology.

Keywords

Government Incentives, Employment, Manufacturing Industry, SMEs

Thanks

Abdullah Tirgil acknowledges support from the Turkish Academy of Sciences

Devlet Desteği ve İmalat Sanayii KOBİ’lerinin İstihdamı

Abstract

Amaç: Bu çalışma, devlet teşviklerinin Türkiye imalat sektöründe KOBİ istihdamını nasıl etkilediğini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Yöntem: Çalışmaya konu veri seti Türkiye Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı'nın yardımıyla Londra merkezli özel bir şirket tarafından gerçekleştirilen bir anket araştırmasından edinilmiştir. Devlet teşvikleri ile istihdam arasındaki ilişkiyi analiz etmek için sıradan en küçük kareler ve iki aşamalı en küçük kareler regresyon teknikleri kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Çalışmada, 2013 ile 2016 yılları arasında Türk imalat KOBİ'leri tarafından devlet yardımı kullanılarak istihdam yaratıldığını bulunmuştur. Firmaların yaşı, kapasite kullanım oranı ve yenilikçi faaliyetleri gibi firma düzeyindeki özelliklerin de KOBİ istihdamı üzerinde önemli bir etkiye sahip olduğu bulunmuştur.
Özgünlük: Çalışmamız, T.C. Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı tarafından 10.063 imalatçı firmaya uygulanan bir mikro veri setini kullanarak Türkiye'deki imalatçı KOBİ'lerde teşviklerin istihdam üzerindeki etkisini inceleyen ilk çalışmadır.

Keywords

Devlet Destekleri, İstihdam, İmalat Sanayi, KOBİ'ler

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