Economic performance and unemployment: evidence from an emerging economy

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Berument, Hakan
Dogan, Nukhet
Tansel, Aysıt
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Purpose - This article seeks to examine whether or not various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment and the unemployment by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed separately for male and female unemployment.
Unemployment, Gender, Education, Economic performance, Turkey
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30201
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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H. Berument, N. Dogan, and A. Tansel, “Economic performance and unemployment: evidence from an emerging economy,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER, pp. 604–623, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30201.
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