{"id":9497,"date":"2021-01-26T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2021-01-26T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:16:35","slug":"labor-market-outlook-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/2021\/01\/labor-market-outlook-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Market Outlook: January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MILD INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT AS EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN SERVICES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seyfettin G\u00fcrsel, G\u00f6k\u00e7e Uysal and Hamza Mutluay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seasonally adjusted labor market data show that in the period of October 2020, non-agricultural unemployment rate is 14.9 percent following a 0.1 percentage point increase from September 2020. In this period, while non-agricultural employment decreased by 5 thousand, labor force increased by 25 thousand. According to sectoral data, employment decreased in the construction and services sectors. While employment in the construction and services sectors decreased by 2 thousand and 70 thousand respectively, employment in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors increased by 6 thousand and 67 thousand, respectively. According to seasonally adjusted data, the female non-agricultural employment decreased by 63 thousand and female labor force by 77 thousand. As a result, the non-agricultural female unemployment rate remained unchanged at 18.3 percent. As for the male labor force and employment, they increased by 73 thousand and 44 thousand, respectively. Thus, the non-agricultural male unemployment rate increased from 13.4 to 13.5 percent. The existing gender gap in non-agricultural unemployment rate is\u00a0 4.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>pdf. <a href=\"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LaborMarketOutlook2021M01.docx\">LaborMarketOutlook2021M01<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILD INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT AS EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN SERVICES Seyfettin G\u00fcrsel, G\u00f6k\u00e7e Uysal and Hamza Mutluay Seasonally adjusted labor market data show that in the period of October 2020, non-agricultural unemployment rate is 14.9 percent following a 0.1 percentage point increase from September 2020. In this period, while non-agricultural employment decreased by 5 thousand, labor [&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-9497","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\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betam.bahcesehir.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}