TURKISH REAL ECONOMY: CHALLENGES AHEAD

• 3. Labour market: How to decrease unemployment and make the system more flexible and secure

• • • Seemingly limited success in employment growth:
    • 2002 2006
    • Unemployment rate (%) 10.3 9.9
    • Non-agric. unemp. Rate 14.5 12.6
    • # of unemployed (million) 2.5 2.5
    • 2002-2006 (million persons)
    • Emp. generation in non-agr.sectors 2.8
    • Decline in agricultural employment 2.0