PROVINCIAL HUMAN CAPITAL FLOWS AND URBAN DYNAMISM IN TURKEY
Abstract
Human capital is being argued as an urban development factor for many years. People who can think, create, change way of thinking easily according to fast evolving new situations, make innovations and produce innovative solutions are the bases of urban dynamism. In the world literature, after human capital has gained such an important role, many researches have been conducted in order to understand relationship between human capital flows and spatial development. However, in Turkish literature, mainly due to lack of detailed migration data, this kind of studies are not in sufficient number. In this study, it is aimed to cluster the most popular urban migration destinations according to their human capital immigration profiles by using some exploratory techniques and there are some surprising conclusions reached by these analysis in Turkey, like, although Istanbul is the outlier for almost all of the urban dynamism characteristics for Turkey, she is not lucky enough for gaining the most valuable urban migration profile. Besides; it is seen that there are opportunities to gain and benefit from this valuable profile by developing some policies on training, internship opportunities, creation of jobs for the ones which are not as popular migration destinations as Istanbul, like Kutahya, Erzurum, and Manisa. Therefore, human capital and its relation with space are very important issues for planning authorities and policy makers to dig up. This paper is written to shed light on this crucial issue. In the first part; literature on analyzing the relation between human capital and urban development is presented. In the second part, exploratory analysis of human capital migration is introduced. Third part includes the reached clusters and their interpretations. Paper ends with some concluding remarks pointing issues on further research on this subject.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Dilcu Gönül
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0000-0002-5632-988X
Türkiye
Gülden Erkut
This is me
0000-0001-5553-7751
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 31, 2019
Submission Date
November 10, 2018
Acceptance Date
December 27, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Number: 043