Growth Continues to Slow Down Ozan Bakış and Mine Durmaz In second quarter of 2016, quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 0.3 percent and year-on-year growth rate of 3.1 percent remained below...
LARGE EMPLOYMENT LOSSES IN MANUFACTURING Seyfettin Gürsel Gökçe Uysal and Selin Köksal  Seasonally adjusted labor market data show that nonagricultural unemployment rate increased by 0.6 percentage points and reached 13.2 percent...
Seyfettin Gürsel, Ozan Bakış and Selin Köksal Increase in labor productivity showed by far the greatest contribution to Turkey’s high economic growth rates before the global economic crisis (2002-2008). When...
Bulent Anil, Duygu Guner, Tuba Toru Delibasi and Gokce Uysal Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature. Yet, the...
HARSH BRAKE IN 2ND QUARTER GROWTH Seyfettin Gürsel  and Selin Köksal From the first quarter of 2016 to  the second, GDP grew by 0.3 percent which is below expectations. On...