Abstract:
As in every country with capitalist production relations, the fundamental goal of the macroeconomic policies in Turkey is to reduce unemployment while increasing employment, to provide fair income distribution, and to obtain economic growth along with this. It is expected that economic growth would increase employment, GDP per capital and provide fairness in income distribution. Theoretically, it is accepted that economic growth would accelerate the investments within the country, and reduce unemployment as a result and provide a balance in income distribution, yet it is discussed that the latest economic growth does not reduce unemployment and does not have a corrective effect on disruptions on income distribution. The research question of this study could be framed as, defining the corrective effect of the income distribution and employment increasing effects of the economic growth in Turkey, or lack of it thereof. Based on this research question, the goal of this study is to examine economic growth and employment relationship and to state income distribution via this relationship. Granger Causality relationship between economic growth and employment between 1990-2019 was inspected over the economy of Turkey. In the conducted Granger Causality test there was no mutual Granger Causality relationship found between economic growth and employment. According to the findings, there was no causal relationship between economic growth and employment between 1998-2019 in Turkey, neither one-sided nor twosided.
