The Effects of Education and Marital Status on Women’s Labor Force Participation: A Regional Analysis of Turkey

Yasemin Özerkek () and Yasemin Özbal ()
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Yasemin Özerkek: Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics
Yasemin Özbal: Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED)

Ekonomi-tek - International Economics Journal, 2017, vol. 6, issue 3, 15-38

Abstract: Participation of women in the labor force is important for a country’s sustainable growth and development. The rate of female labor force participation in Turkey is far below those of developed countries. Furthermore, the rate differs across regions of the country. This study investigates the effects of educational level and marital status on women’s labor force participation in the years 2006 and 2016. The aim of the study is to examine the differences across regions and to see whether the results showed any change over the ten years. Toward this end, a probit-regression model is used, with micro-level data at NUTS2 level from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey. The results point to greater probabilities of women’s participation in the workplace in many Turkish regions over the period, but at the same time there were rigid lower participation probabilities for women, despite the rising level of education (except for higher education), in certain regions. Furthermore, we find the participation probability of Turkish women in the labor force to be higher if they have a Bachelor’s or higher degree.

Keywords: female labor force participation; regional analysis; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 O18 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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