Regional analysis of skills-mismatch in Turkish labor markets

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• dc.contributor.author Şahin, Ömer
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-21T08:07:52Z
• dc.date.available 2024-06-21T08:07:52Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract The difference between the skills and the skills needed in the labor market is called skill mismatch. The literature reveals this skills mismatch problem as an over-education and over-qualification problem in Turkish labor markets. For enterprises, the two hardest employees to find are unqualified workers and workers with vocational training, both bluecollar (VGM,2018). This finding also is supported by high higher-education unemployment (TURKSTAT, 2020). However, earlier studies do not make clear if different regions suffer from these problems uniformly. This study aims to reveal the differences between NUTS-2 regions in suffering from the over-education and over-qualification problem. It extensively uses the Sectoral and Regional Mapping of Productivity and Development in Turkey project, SEGE 2017 report to acquire the development levels of NUTS-2 regions and TURKSTAT’s employment statistics by education and NUTS-2 region. Two crucial findings of this paper are that only the illiterate labor force satisfies enterprises’ unqualified labor need and that while less developed regions suffer severely from the over-education and over-qualification problem, more developed regions only suffer from lack of workers with vocational training. This paper will first analyze the current situation in Turkish Labor Markets, followed by the presentation and analysis of data it uses. In the end, these results will be discussed, and policies to improve the situation will be suggested.
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• dc.identifier.citation Şahin Ö. Regional analysis of skills-mismatch in Turkish labor markets. Journal of Economic Policy Researches. 2021;8(1):1-27. DOI: 10.26650/JEPR813711
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.26650/JEPR813711
• dc.identifier.issn 2148-3876
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60553
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher UNLISTED PUBLISHER
• dc.rights This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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• dc.subject.keyword Skills mismatch
• dc.subject.keyword Turkish labor markets
• dc.subject.keyword Regional labor markets
• dc.subject.keyword Labor economics
• dc.title Regional analysis of skills-mismatch in Turkish labor markets
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