{"id":7400,"date":"2018-04-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/?p=7400\/"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:33:00","slug":"labor-market-outlook-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/2018\/04\/labor-market-outlook-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Market Outlook: April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seyfettin G\u00fcrsel, G\u00f6k\u00e7e Uysal\u00a0 and U\u011furcan Acar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seasonally adjusted labor market data show that non-agricultural unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points in the period of January reaching 11.7 percent. The non-agricultural unemployment rate decreased from 14,1 to 11,7 in the last year as a consequence of high GDP growth in 2017. As result, the non-agricultural unemployment rate has decreased by 2.4 percentage points in the recent year. The reason behind this decrease is the strong increases in non-agricultural employment. From December 2017 to January 2018, employment increased by 29 and 53 thousand in the construction and manufacture sectors while employment decreased by 4 thousand in the services. Betam\u2019s forecasting model predicts that the non-agricultural unemployment will remain constant at 11.7 percent in the period of February 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>doc.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LaborMarketOutlook2018M04.docx\">LaborMarketOutlook2018M04<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>pdf.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LaborMarketOutlook2018M04.pdf\">LaborMarketOutlook2018M04<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES Seyfettin G\u00fcrsel, G\u00f6k\u00e7e Uysal\u00a0 and U\u011furcan Acar Seasonally adjusted labor market data show that non-agricultural unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points in the period of January reaching 11.7 percent. The non-agricultural unemployment rate decreased from 14,1 to 11,7 in the last year as a consequence of high GDP growth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,284,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-research","category-labor-market-outlook","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}