Re: Re: Re: Turkey-Iraq

[e. ahmet tonak]

Mostly in the informal sector, which is huge, and agriculture.  Regarding the informal sector we all know that there are some many measurement related problems.  However, one of my former students from Middle East Technical University is currently writing his thesis on this topic at UMass and I am sure it will add many new insights to our understanding of  the real extent of unemployment in Turkey.  I would never take the figures that Sabri used, i.e. 11% unemployment rate or the labor force, seriously.  They are literally harmful!

Doug Henwood wrote:

Sabri Oncu wrote:

The official unemployment is around 11% as far as I know. It is
based on a work force of roughly 25 million and which means that
officialy the rest of the nation are not actively seeking work.
So, officially we have about 2.8 or so million unemployed in a
population of 68 million. Not bad at all I would say.

What about the rest? Working in the informal sector? Not working in the informal sector? In agriculture?

Doug

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