Browsing by Author "Saglam, Guler"

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The Role of Voluntary Organizations in Building Trust
(TUBA-Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2023) Yanikkaya, Halit; Saglam, Guler
Voluntary organizations are crucial in promoting generalized social trust in a society. The aim of this study is thus to investigate the relationship between the generalized social trust and membership in voluntary organizations. We employ the World Values Survey data for 48 countries including Turkiye on trust and organizational membership for the years 2017-2020 (Wave 7). In addition to the overall organizational membership, this study also investigates the nexus between trust and membership in large numbers of voluntary organizations such as "sport or recreational organization, political party, art, music or educational organization, professional association, humanitarian or charitable organization, religious organization, consumer organization, selfhelp group, mutual aid group". Our logistic regression estimates show that all of these membership variables are significantly related with the trust variable for the full sample. Thus, our results provide substantial evidence for the argument that membership in voluntary organizations is an important factor in building trust in a society. Our further estimations also imply that the positive association between organizational membership and trust holds regardless of the being active or inactive member. However, unlike the full sample, our results for Turkiye show that while overall organizational membership fails to raise trust, memberships to some voluntary organizations such as labor union, political party and aid organizations have even negative association with trust in Turkiye.
Technology, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: Evidence from High Income OECD Countries
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2022) Erkisi, Kemal; Saglam, Guler
In this study, technology in the form of domestic and foreign technology and human capital in the form of education and health are included in the model, and their effects on growth are examined. The education variable is further broken down into elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The research covers high-income OECD countries over the period 1990-2020. In the analysis, the FGLS estimator, which resists to heteroscedasticity, cross-section dependence and panel-specific autocorrelation, is employed. Results indicate that a unit increase in foreign technology increases national income by 0.037%, and a domestic technology by 0.023%. Foreign technology has a greater impact on economic growth than domestic technology. Although primary education did not have a significant effect on growth, secondary education increased growth by 0.069% and tertiary education by 0.30%. The effect of physical capital on economic growth (0.22%) is lower than tertiary education.