Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit and Ozdemir, Zeynel / A. and Aksoy, Emre (2015): Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey.

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Cointegration, Turkey
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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