%0 Report %A Tansel, Aysit %A Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin %A Aksoy, Emre %T Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey %D 2015 %8 2015 Feb %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 8834 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8834 %X This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey. %K unemployment invariance hypothesis %K cointegration %K Turkey