Import Tariffs and Informal Labour Market: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis for Turkey

From the 1980s to onwards trade liberalization policies have been widely used in many countries. This process has significant impacts on economic aspects one of which is labour market. However, direction relationship between reforms and market controversial. study aims analyse effects a specific reform import tariff changes formal informal for Turkey. For that purpose, we benefit from Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model relies nonlinear simultaneous equations. We construct an updated Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) compatible with our model. Our findings indicate while there positive employment total rates, negative occurs rates.