Güngör Turan

Former Rector at Epoka University

Tirana, Albania

About

Professor Turan has been a former rector and current professor of labor economics at Epoka University since 2007, where he teaches Introduction to Economics I-II, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics I-II, Managerial Economics, Open Economy: Theory and Application, and Labor Market Studies at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels. He received his Ph.D. in labor economics and industrial relations program at Dokuz Eylül University in 1996. Professor Turan’s field of research focuses on micro and macro labor market studies including the theory of contemporary labor-management relations in the workplace, the economics of collective bargaining and trade unionism, performance-based wage systems, and measuring labor productivity, on the job-training and returns to education, job seeking and recruitment behaviors of firms by using search-and-matching models in the labor market, the economics of crime, endogenous growth theory and models, the effects of human capital and entrepreneurship on economic growth in developing areas based on co-integration and causality modelling of non-stationary time series data analysis, and in particular the economics of post-Soviet transition. Professor Turan has won research competitions and has published two books, available for sale in popular bookstores in Turkey for a long time.

Experience

  • Epoka University (Full-time · 18 yrs 9 mos)
    • Professor of Labor Economics
      Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    • Rector
      Aug 2015 - Jul 2021 · 6 yrs

    • Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
      Oct 2011 - Sep 2015 · 4 yrs

  • Head of International Trade and Finance Department at Yaşar University
    Oct 2005 - Sep 2007 · 2 yrs

    Lecturer in Economics

  • Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at International Turkmen Turkish University
    Oct 1998 - Sep 2005 · 7 yrs

    Lecturer in Labor economics in Economics Department

  • Research Assistant at Dokuz Eylul University
    Mar 1989 - Sep 1998 · 9 yrs 7 mos

    Research assistant in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department.