The Papers
Umit Senesen Gulay Gunluk-Senesen Zeynep Yilmaz
The Turkish economy in the 2000’s is characterized by positive growth rates and persistent high rates of unemployment. This paper attempts to gain insight into the concurrence of these two phenomena in the neoliberal era by taking the role of intermediate …
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Zeynep M. Sonat Hansjörg Herr
This paper questions the sustainability of Turkey’s growth performance in the post-2001 period. After the 2001 crisis, Turkey continued to pursue a radical market reform strategy following the philosophy of the Washington Consensus. A “jobless” growth due to high productivity increases which were …
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Değer Eryar and Hasan Tekgüç
This paper examines the importance of gender for different job mobility patterns using an extensive household survey data from İzmir, third largest city in Turkey. The determinants of job-to-job and job-to-non-employment transitions are analyzed with the help of a multinomial …
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Aykut Ozturk
From 1980s onwards, Turkey started a period of economic integration into the neoliberal global economy. For an inward-oriented economy, this was a very tough and uneven process in which forward steps, backward steps, crises and political struggles followed each other. …
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Ismail Doga Karatepe
This short study is designed to explore the three crucial elements of construction boom that Turkey has experienced since 2002, when the islamist/conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to the power. I claim that the construction boom and its …
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Turan Subaşat
This article focuses on the second part of the liberalisation epoch in Turkey which started in 2001 and heightened in 2002 with the establishment of the AKP government and deals with the above counterarguments. In order to assess Turkey’s performance …
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Faruk ÜLGEN
In the wake of the global change of a new accumulation regime in major capitalist economies, the opening up and liberalisation process of emerging economies from the 1980s has provoked great expectations that resulted in recurrent disappointing crises. Studied as …
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Emine Tahsin
Without any doubt, under JDP (Justice and Development Party) era, the neoliberal policies have also specific characteristics that could be distinguished from the previous decades. After the 2001 crisis (one of the deepest crisis in the history of Turkish economy), …
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Alper Duman and Anıl Duman
Turkey by and large avoided the financial meltdown thanks to its moderate level of household debt ratio and relatively sound public finance structure. The stylized fact is that the consumption loss as a percentage of GDP has been greater for …
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