There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of … durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the determinants of probability of leaving unemployment or the hazard rate. The …

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence … on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in … two respects. First, we consider not only the response of total unemployment but also the response of unemployment by …

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …