Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Karao?lan, Deniz () and Cagla Okten ()
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Karao?lan, Deniz: Bahcesehir University
Cagla Okten: Bilkent University

No 6616, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey for the 2000-2010 period. We also construct two year panels based on questions on previous year's labor market outcomes. Panel results provide further support for the added worker effect. Wives whose husbands experience a job loss are more likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in their region increases.

Keywords: female labor force participation; added worker effect; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2012-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published as 'Labor-Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey' in: Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2015, 51 (1), 274-290

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