@article{article_394779, title={THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF LABOUR MIGRATION ON THE TURKISH ECONOMY}, journal={Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={14}, pages={1–21}, year={1996}, author={Çarıkçı, Emin}, keywords={international labour migration,turkish economy}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:12.15pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:25.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 22.2pt;line-height:95%;tab-stops:76.5pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:95%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">This study is mainly designed to proinfie a better understanding of the emnoiruc impact of international labour migration on the TurLsh Economy. Following the introduction and a bnef review’ of causes of increasing <span style="letter-spacing: .55pt"> </span>temporary migration during <span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing:-.95pt"> </span>last <span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>4 <span style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span>decades. <span style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span>complexity <span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>of measuruing benefical and detrimental effects of <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>internafional <span style="letter-spacing:2.1pt"> </span>labour migration is analyzed from the scopr of both exporting and importing countries in order to get better insight to the <span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>main topic. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.6pt;margin-right:12.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:26.75pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 21.9pt;line-height:95%"> <span lang="EN-US">During the 1970’s. remittances halt been used to finnnce a growing </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:95%;font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">share of Turkey’s imports. Without remittances. Turkev would not have achieved higher economic growth rate, and increase in its  exports </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:95%; font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">capacities. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoBodyText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:11.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:27.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 21.3pt;line-height:90%"> <span lang="EN-US">The <span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>Turkish <span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>expenence <span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>shows <span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>that <span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing:-1.25pt"> </span>spending <span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"> </span>patterns <span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of <span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>migrant workers tend to be highly affected by change in national economic policies <span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt"> </span>notably <span style="letter-spacing:.4pt"> </span>in <span style="letter-spacing:-1.35pt"> </span>foreign <span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>exchange <span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>rates <span style="letter-spacing:-1.05pt"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>interest <span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>rate <span style="letter-spacing:-1.05pt"> </span>policies. <span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>This </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:90%;mso-font-width: 95%">study <span style="letter-spacing:-1.35pt"> </span>clearly <span style="letter-spacing:-1.3pt"> </span>explains <span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>that <span style="letter-spacing:-1.6pt"> </span>in <span style="letter-spacing:-1.45pt"> </span>most <span style="letter-spacing:-1.3pt"> </span>migration <span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>literature, <span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>inflationarv <span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt"> </span>impact </span> <span lang="EN-US">of <span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt"> </span>remittances <span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>are <span style="letter-spacing:-1.4pt"> </span>exaggerated, <span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing:-1.2pt"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing:.15pt"> </span>contribution <span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt"> </span>of <span style="letter-spacing:-1.35pt"> </span>durable <span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>goods <span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt"> </span>and housing sectors to economic development and growth <span style="letter-spacing: .6pt"> </span>is under-estimated. </span> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={Hacettepe University}