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Unemployment and labour force participation in Turkey |
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| Authors: | Aysit Tansel Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir Emre Aksoy |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;2. Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany;3. Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt;4. Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt;5. Department of Economics, Gazi University, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey;6. Department of Economics, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey |
| Abstract: | This article investigates the relationship between labour force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender-specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labour force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus, unlike in the case of the developed countries, the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey. |
| Keywords: | Unemployment invariance hypothesis cointegration Turkey |