SLIGHT DECLINE IN NON-AGRICULTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT
Seyfettin Gürsel , Zümrüt İmamoğlu and Ayşenur Acar
Seasonally adjusted labor market data shows that non-agricultural unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage point in the period of August 2014 compared to the period of July 2014, and reached 12.4 percent. Non-agricultural employment increased much more than the non-agricultural labor force, hence non-agricultural unemployment decreased. Increase in non-agricultural employment was due to the increase in manufacturing employment that has been decreasing for a while and the increase in construction employment that has been stagnating. Employment in service sector continues to increase slightly. Consequently, we observe a slight decline in non-agricultural unemployment. Increases in employment are line with economic recovery in the third quarter of 2014. We expect that non-agricultural unemployment will stagnate in the next period.
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