Knowledge Economy And Effect On Women’ S Employment In Turkey

Knowledge Economy And Effect On Women’ S Employment In Turkey

Arslan, İbrahim

In recent years, information and communication technology has changed remarkable by effect of globalization movement that occurring in the world. This changing also affected world economy significantly at the same time. Nowadays the new economic relations based on information technologies, such as labor and capital have reduced the importance of production factors and information has been the most important elements in the production factors. Continuously variation in technology with the creative power of information causes a change in the employment parallel. The main purpose of the study is to examine how information and communication technologies have changed the direction of the woman’s employment. Along with the development of information and communication technologies, computer and communication tools take place of the labor force could be decreased the number of employment, may also increase with the emergence of new business opportunities. Like many other developing countries, Turkey is implementing various projects and taking some steps to adapt and take advantages of benefits of the knowledge economy. With all other economic variables women’s employment is also affected by the steps thrown and this response has socially importance. This paper aims to investigate Turkey's harmonization process in the knowledge economy and how knowledge economy impacted on female employment in Turkey and make some assumptions for future. Keywords: Knowledge economy, Woman’s Employment, Unemployment, Turkey’s Economy

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2012-05-31

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