TY - RPRT AU - Tansel, Aysit AU - Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin AU - Aksoy, Emre TI - Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey PY - 2015/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 8834 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8834 AB - 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. KW - unemployment invariance hypothesis KW - cointegration KW - Turkey ER -