Oytun Meçik

Eskişehir Osmangazi University

Oytun Meçik was born in Eskişehir/Turkey in 1985. He graduated from Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Department of Economics in 2008. In the same year, he began his academic career as a Research Assistant at Uşak University, Department of Economics and he completed his graduate degree at Uşak University in 2010. Then, he completed his Ph.D. studies at Anadolu University, Department of Economics in 2014. He has been working at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Department of Economics since 2015. Meçik became an associate professor in 2017. Meçik’s main research fields of study, labor market, social and economics networks, and structural transformations. Meçik is currently researching the effects of education-job mismatch, industrial transformation, and computerization in the labor market. He has recently prepared "Analysis of the Local Economic Development of Eskişehir and Eskişehir's Labour Market Analysis" as part of ILO's Promoting Decent Work Opportunities for Non-Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Turkey project. He has also editorial experiences in various journals, and he is a member of the Turkish Economic Association.