Tirana, Albania
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.
Lecturer in Economics
Lecturer in Labor economics in Economics Department
Research assistant in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department.