A Research on Employment and Unemployment: Case in Turkey

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Purpose – It is to evaluate active employment policies by examining the types of unemployment in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of this article is literature review. For Turkey’s employmen policy, the type of unemploıyment, Dynamics of unemploymen and the characteristics of unemployment subjects are investigated. After a brief introduction, the coming first part of the article consists of general concepts of employment and unemployment. In the second part majör unemployment types have been investigated. Next part is about the employment policy and the dynamic factors of employment. At the end of the article it has been discussed whether active and passive employment policies are enough or not for Turkey. Findings – The articles main outcomes are the basic conceptual information about employment and unemployment where as the main findings are the edequacy of the current applied policy especially on active employment policy in Turkey. It is important that under technological development the traditional policies should be transformed. Discussion – The main discussion subject is the policies which are used for decreasing unemployment are enough or not as education and technology Fundamentals are in transformation.