The Problem of Youth Unemployment and Possible Reasons behind It

ISBN-13: 9783844392210 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str.

Yaprak Kurtsal

Opis

World is facing an employment crisis and youth constitutes a group that is among the most vulnerable. Especially in developing countries, the problems associated with youth unemployment tend to be even more challenging at the regional level. The aim of this study is to suggest reasons to why there are regional disparities of youth unemployment in Turkey. A quantitative analysis will be undertaken to comment on regional disparities of youth unemployment, as well as observing other regional trends in education, job-search methods and type of work done, using Household Labour Force Survey conducted by the State Institute of Statistics. The main findings suggest that regional disparities regarding unemployment, education, job search- methods and type of jobs done are statistically significant; while there is a significant negative relationship between youth education and unemployment of youth.

O autorze

Kurtsal has Bsc in Economics(Bilkent University) and Msc in Local Economic Development(LSE). She currently is a PhD student at METU,(Science&Technology Policies) and works as a research associate at Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.Kurtsal's areas of interest include regional development and localization of economic activity.