The unemployment rate in Turkey rose by 1.2 percentage points y/y to 11.3% while the non-farm unemployment rate climbed to 13.7%. This August job report marked another step in deceleration pace of the economy. Partly due to the purge following the coup attempt and struggling…
Good News or Bad News Labor market data for February 2016 was released early this week. The unemployment rate was down 20 basis points on monthly basis to 10.9% according to the official figures. The employment rate also saw a pick-up and stood at 45.3%…
Today Turkish Statistics Office reported a monthly unemployment rate of 9.8% in August, which was higher than market consensus. The rate was at 9.3% in July. Elsewhere, non-farm unemployment rate jumped to 12.3% from 11.8%, while the labor force participation rate dropped by 0.1 pp…