Turkey-Germany Comparison for Active Employment Policies

Unemployment or the issue of employment is one of the most important problems in the world. The most important agendas of all states and governments are employment policies. Because unemployment rates are the type of data that can change the administration. Each country has its own employment policies; however, unemployment is not one of the problems that countries can solve on their own nowadays.

Active employment policies have been taking place in the agenda of G-20 countries for the last 10 years. The economies of developed countries cover 83% of the world economy. The concept of active employment policies has been used in Sweden after World War II to reduce unemployment and implement inflation control policies. After the 1960s, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) considered active employment policies within labor market policies.

The aim of active or full employment policies that have become widespread in European countries in a short time is increasing labor and employment, making the concepts like supply, demand, labor, profession, sector, and workplace region compatible with each other. Although these policies did not attract the attention of politicians and economic circles in the first years, global unemployment started to increase in the 1980s and forced governments to take active employment policies into account. In this context, the role of active employment policy instruments, which are important for the solution of economic policies and problems concerning work and operation was addressed and the employment policies of Turkey and Germany were compared by addressing the German model.