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Investigating the nexus among foreign capital, working children, and multinational enterprises in Turkey

Polyxeni Kechagia

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja2026https://doi.org/10.32728/er-ei.38.4.5article
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The present research is motivated by the eclectic approach and aims to shed light on the locational non-traditional determinants of foreign direct investment inflows. Considering the limited available knowledge on the interaction between foreign capital inflows and a worldwide socioeconomic phenomenon, namely child labor, the research extends an empirical model and examines the significance of location advantages when investing abroad, focusing on Turkey as a recipient country. A time series analysis using secondary annual data over the period 2002-2021 is conducted. Unit root and cointegration tests, as well as autoregressive distributed lag and error correction models, are applied. The results reveal that child labor in Turkey has a statistically insignificant negative impact on foreign capital inflows in both the shortand the long-run period, while the reverse causality analysis proves that the impact of FDI inflows on child labor in Turkey is statistically insignificant in the long- and short term. Policy implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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@article{polyxeni2026,
  title        = {{Investigating the nexus among foreign capital, working children, and multinational enterprises in Turkey}},
  author       = {Polyxeni Kechagia},
  journal      = {Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32728/er-ei.38.4.5},
}

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