@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8834, author={Tansel, Aysit and Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin and Aksoy, Emre}, title={Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey}, year={2015}, month={Feb}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={8834}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8834}, abstract={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.}, keywords={unemployment invariance hypothesis;cointegration;Turkey}, }