Bayar, Y.2024-09-292024-09-2920141810-4967https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/9820There have been significant increases in trade volume and foreign direct investment flows in the world in parallel with globalization since 1980s. This study examines the relationship between unemployment, economic growth, export and foreign direct investment inflows in Turkey during the period of 2000:Q1-2013:Q3 by using bound testing approach based on autoregressive distributed lag. We found that there was long run relationship among unemployment, economic growth, export and foreign direct investment inflows. Moreover empirical findings demonstrated that there was a negative relationship between unemployment and economic growth, export, while there was a positive relationship between unemployment and foreign direct investment inflows. © Yilmaz Bayar, 2014.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEconomic growthExportForeign direct investment inflowsUnemploymentArticle2-s2.0-84940288019272Q42011