Keywords: Employment
The Mersin-Urfa Line Comes to the Fore in Employment Gains Excluding the three largest cities, the highest increase in employment was observed along the Mersin, Adana, Gaziantep and Şanlıurfa line.
30/03/2012
ANKARA – TEPAV stated that, excluding Istanbul, the highest increase in employment during 2011 was observed along the Mersin-Şanlıurfa line, according to the regional employment analysis for employment gains.
The fifth issue of the TEPAV E
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Employment Drops in the Education and Health Sectors Between November 2010 and November 2011, 30,000 people left jobs in the education sector.
12/03/2012
ANKARA – TEPAV stated that the education and health sectors faced the highest drops in employment. The stable, upward trend of employment in the education sector since 2008 turned downwards by mid-2011.
The fourth issue of the TEPAV Employme
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23,359 People Benefit from Unemployment Insurance Only one out of 100 unemployed receives benefits.
01/02/2012
ANKARA- In October 2011, the number of unemployed people who received unemployment insurance benefits from the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) was 23,359, whereas the total number of unemployed was 2,454,000. Therefore, only one percent of
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Women’s Employment Increases in the West, Decreases in the East Women’s employment is highest in Denizli, İzmir, İstanbul, Edirne, and Kırklareli and lowest in Şırnak, Ağrı, Bitlis, Van and Siirt. Employment among women continues to decline in eastern Turkey.
29/12/2011
ANKARA – The ratio of women’s employment, which averages 23.7 percent in Turkey, falls as low as 6.8 percent in the eastern provinces of the country. The ratio of women’s employment is highest in Denizli, İzmir, İstanbul, Edirne, and Kırkl
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TEPAV Will Monitor Employment The first issue of the TEPAV Employment Monitoring Bulletin was published. The total number of insured workers increased by 9.5 percent to 950,000 between August 2010 and 2011.
01/12/2011
ANKARA – Istanbul took the largest share in the employment gain. Between August 2010 and August 2011, the total number of insured paid workers increased by 9.5 percent to 950,000. The share of Istanbul in this increase was 30 percent. Izmir
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Istanbul Forum Convened for Women Entrepreneurs The Istanbul Forum aims at developing the dialogue between Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan via bringing together the respective business circles convened for women entrepreneurs.
04/11/2011
ISTANBUL – The sixth meeting of the Istanbul Forum, launched by the Chamber of Unions and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) to develop dialogue between the Afghani and Pakistani business worlds, was held on November 1-2, 2011. The Forum meetin
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: How can fiberoptic cables reduce migration from the east to the west? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed the services sector-based development potential of Erzurum taking departure from Turkcell's research project that investigated the local economic impact of its call center in the city.
19/09/2011
Çağlar said:
"I do not know about politics, but technology definitely has the power to make dreams come true. Let’s say that you are in Istanbul and you want to order kebab from the restaurant two blocks away. You pick up the phone and a yo
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TEPAV EU Institute Director Eralp: "Turkey with its rising economy falls back with respect to women's emloyment"
27/10/2010
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Employment for 300 Women Targeted in Amasya, Which Lags Behind in Female Labour Force Participation... With an EU funded project implemented by TEPAV, participation of 300 women to formal employment and improvement of women's entrepreneurial capacity is targeted for Amasya, one of the worst performing provinces with respect to female labor force participation.
26/10/2010
ANKARA - In the context of a European Union (EU) funded project, TEPAV initiated efforts to increase formal employment in Amasya, one of the worst performing provinces with respect to female labour force participation. The opening meeting of
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