abstract: 'Drawing on a growing cross-national literature on the social impact of

  economic crises, this paper investigates the social structuring of

  economic hardship among urban households in Turkey following the 2001

  economic crisis. My goal is to compare the Turkish crisis to other

  recent crises, particularly in Latin America and Asia, and to assess

  competing claims about the vulnerability of different social groups.

  Using data from the study entitled Turkish Family Life under Siege a

  nationally representative sample of urban households of work-aged

  married couples the results paint a picture of widespread social

  devastation as measured by key labor market outcomes: job loss,

  unemployment duration, earnings instability, and under-employment. The

  findings suggest that existing patterns of social inequality related to

  class and status education, age, ethnicity, and occupation were

  reinforced and exacerbated by the 2001 macro-economic crisis. In

  contrast to claims that the impact was skewed towards higher

  socio-economic groups, the brunt of the 2001 crisis was felt by

  disadvantaged social groups with few assets to buffer economic hardship.

  Economic hardship was higher among labor force participants who are

  younger, less educated, male, Kurdish-speakers, private-sector

  employees, and residents of non-central regions. I discuss the

  implications with respect to the previous research on economic crises,

  the role of Turkish contextual factors, and the need for social policy

  reform, particularly in the context of the current global economic

  crisis.'
affiliation: 'Rankin, BH (Corresponding Author), Koc Univ, Dept Sociol, Rumeli Feneri
  Yolu, TR-34450 Istanbul, Turkey.

  Koc Univ, Dept Sociol, TR-34450 Istanbul, Turkey.'
author: Rankin, Bruce H.
author-email: brankin@ku.edu.tr
author_list:
- family: Rankin
  given: Bruce H.
da: '2023-09-28'
eissn: 1305-3299
files: []
issn: 0896-6346
journal: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY
keywords: 'Economic crisis; unemployment; earnings; underemployment; economic

  hardship; ethnicity; Turkey'
keywords-plus: TURKEY; KURDS; PARTICIPATION; WOMEN
language: English
month: SPR
number: '44'
number-of-cited-references: '57'
pages: 11-40
papis_id: f08c4928e3b491a89d013cb94ef8a813
ref: Rankin2011economiccrises
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Economic crises and the social structuring of economic hardship: The impact
  of the 2001 Turkish crisis'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000290363000002
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web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2011'