“…Given the multidimensional impact of unemployment encompassing both societal and economic implications, numerous studies have explored its correlations with a range of socio-economic variables. These investigations encompass a spectrum of economic factors including per capita income, inflation, exchange rates, and foreign trade, as well as demographic variables such as education, age, gender, crime, and urbanization (Kyei and Gyekye 2011;Akca and Ela, 2012;Selim et al, 2014;Gunaydin and Cetin, 2015;Akcan and Ener, 2017;Gucluoglu, 2017;Kızılgol and Selim, 2017;Umit and Karatas, 2018;Akcan, 2018;Armutcuoglu -Tekin and Ural, 2019;Ayhan, 2019;Demirgil, 2021;Cinar and Tas, 2022).…”