paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low …

duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … nature of unemployment in Turkey exhibits similarities to the unemployment in both the developed and the developing countries. …There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the …

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

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …