Impact of 2008 Global Economic Crisis on Youth Unemployment: An Application to Turkey

Abstract

In recent years, youth unemployment in Turkey is the effect of economic growth on employment and unemployment. When we search studies for employment and unemployment in the literature, we can’t find many empirical studies for the Turkish economy. In order to contribute about this subject, we try to search the effect of economic growth on youth unemployment for the Turkish economy for the period of 1998-2016 employing Dummy variables. Especially, we found that, increasing effect of economic growth on youth unemployment.

Keywords

• youth unemployment
• 2008 crisis
• turkey
• econometrics models