UNREGISTERED EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS IN TURKEY: UNREGISTERED EMPLOYMENT WHICH PHASE OF INFORMALIZATION PROCESS?

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to define and determine the causes of unregistered employment in Turkey. Also the reasons of unregistered employment (pushing employers to illegal methods) are discussed from various perspectives. As is known, after the 1980’s, globalization has become the most powerful matter in the world. Globalization has forced a change in everything in different ways. The world has become a single market and the first rule of this market is competitiveness which is also being the main cause of unregistered employment. After the Second World War, Keynesian policies established its own hegemony and these years named as a golden years of these policies. But after the 1970’s, globalization changed product technique then service sector turned out the main sector. Also the dynamics of the economy have changed. The welfare system seems to slacken because of these dynamics, so neo – liberal policies have become dominant. Because of these developments (globalization – flexibilization) and also competitiveness, employers tried to find the cheapest way to manufacture and the best way for that is unregistered employment. Labor cost is the main decisive of competitiveness. At that point labor market situation became the most important thing for manufacture and also strictness of labor market initiated the regime shopping. In this paper informalization process of employment in Turkey have been analyzed and we tried to find out the reasons about the framework. Consequently we will discuss the phase of unregistered employment in the informalization process.

Keywords

• Unregistered Employment, Informalization, Flexibilization

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