The relationship between information and communication technologies and female labour force participation in Turkey

Tüzemen Samet (), Barış-Tüzemen Özge () and Çelik Ali Kemal ()
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Tüzemen Samet: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ardahan University, Yenisey Campus, Ardahan, Turkey
Barış-Tüzemen Özge: Department of Econometrics, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, Central Campus, Trabzon, Turkey
Çelik Ali Kemal: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ardahan University, Yenisey Campus, Ardahan, Turkey

Economics and Business Review, 2021, vol. 7, issue 4, 121-145

Abstract: The elimination of all forms of discrimination between the sexes is not only a fundamental human right but it also is very important to support all other areas of development, particularly sustainable development. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the role of information and communication technologies on employment inequality in Turkey. Therefore, the relationship between ICT applications and female labour force participation is investigated with the auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and impulse response analysis. The results showed that there is no association between information and communication technologies and the female labour force participation rate for the period 1988–2018. These findings may suggest that developing countries also need to have a certain level of development in other areas such as democracy, fundamental rights and freedoms and the rule of law to benefit from the opportunities that information and communication technologies offer to empower the whole society including women.

Keywords: women employment; ICTs; ARDL; impulse response function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 E24 J16 J40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18559/ebr.2021.4.7

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