Özet:

 

After the global economic crisis in 2008, while seeking a solution to the problem of youth unemployment, which was gradually increasing in many countries, the Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged in China on December 1, 2019 and showed its effect all over the world, made it difficult to find these solutions. As a result of the measures taken to prevent the spread of the pandemic, the employment of the young workforce was adversely affected. In 2020, when the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was more pronounced, youth unemployment increased by 1.8 points to 16.8% throughout the European Union. In Turkey, as a result of the strict measures taken by the state, the youth unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 points compared to the previous year and decreased to 25.3%. While the youth unemployment rate increased across Europe, the decrease in this rate in Turkey brought the question of why youth unemployment did not increase in a labor market negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak on young people in the Turkish labor market are examined. The evaluations show that the measures taken by the state against the pandemic in Turkey cause a decrease in the youth unemployment rate.

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