ABSTRACT
Some negative consequences were witnessed in terms of labour market indicators in the EU in 1990s. European Employment Strategy EES , on the other hand, were designed to combat with the problems happened in that time. The EU reached a recovery period, even it was weak, thanks to the EES soon after. This trend continued until the financial crisis of 2008 which affected EU deeply just like the rest of the world. Turkey, on the other hand, couldn’t catch a stable improvement in labour market indicators since 1980s. This happened mainly due to the cuts in economic development periods by the crises. After the economic crisis of 2001 which was one of the deepest crises Turkey ever had in terms of economic destruction, some recoveries were reached in some macro indicators like growth, inflation, financial stabilization by taking various measures. However, the same recovery in labour market indicators could not be reached in this period. Moreover, it is not wrong to suggest that the financial crisis worsened the problems of labour market problems. The 2008 financial crisis which was happened in the period when some policies as appropriate to the neoliberal perception were implemented both in the EU and in Turkey and a new implementation based on the public intervention emerged as a necessity may differentiate the integration priorities. In this point, the question of whether the neoliberal policies which are followed intensely in the EU and are suggested to the candidate countries will be continued or not has recently been emerged. In this framework, it is important to assess the full membership of Turkey to the EU and its possible effects in labour market. The effects of full membership in the Turkish labour market are the rise in direct foreign investments and in export rates, supporting the labour market before and after the participation to the union, free movement, designing a planned employment policy in the context of the EES. However, overcoming the problems in social structure, such as unequal income distribution, social insecurity, poverty, gender discrimination, and harmonization with the EU in social policies are not seen possible in near future
Keywords : Labour Market, Employment, European EmploymentStrategy, Turkey