Now the coronavirus pandemic has made the hunt even more difficult. “Unfortunately, many employers are very nervous , Youth unemployment in Turkey stood at 24 per cent in September, the most recent available data, as young people between the ages of 15 and 24 found themselves at the sharp end of a broader employment crisis that has been compounded by the economic consequences of Covid-19.
Though the official nationwide unemployment rate was 12.7 per cent in September — down from 13.2 per cent in August — experts said the headline figures masked a rise in the number of people in the country of 83m who were falling out of the labour force completely, disheartened that they could not find work.
“The number of people who are actively looking for a job, so can be considered unemployed, is falling,” said Gunes Asik, an assistant professor of economics at TOBB university in Ankara. “People are dropping out of the labour force.”
The population not in the labour force reached 31.1m in September — up from 28.7m a year earlier, even though the working-age population grew by more than a million. At the same time, a ban on firing workers during the pandemic means that the full impact of the coronavirus crisis on future employment levels is not reflected in current statistics.
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