HOW STRONG ARE SECTORS LINKED TO EACH OTHER? AN INPUT - OUTPUT ANALYSIS FOR THE CASE OF TURKEY

Ester Biton RUBEN (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi)

The purpose of this paper is to determine and explain the trend in the inter-sectoral linkages for the case of Turkey. The main questions to be answered are: Are inter-sectoral linkages getting stronger or weaker in Turkey? What are their implications for employment generations?

To answer these questions an input - output analysis will be made using the I/O tables for Turkey for the years 1979, 1985, 1990, and 1996. The analysis of inter-sectoral likages will take place in two different ways. First, linkages between manufacturing and services will be analyzed for the cited years in order to determine how dependent they are on each other. Second, linkages between different industries of the manufacturing sector are calculated to find out their direct and indirect employment generation efects.

The economic policy implications of the findings will also be discussed through the paper.