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 …

There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor …

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 …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …

transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … have higher unemployment rates than urban men because they have lower probability of exiting unemployment for a job and …

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 …

transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … have higher unemployment rates than urban men because they have lower probability of exiting unemployment for a job and …

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …