Gender Role Attitude and Female Labor Force Participation: A case study of İzmir

Deger Eryar and Hasan Tekgüç
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Deger Eryar: Izmir University of Economics

No 2012-04, Working Papers from Mardin Artuklu Univeristy, Department of Economics

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the significance of gender role attitude among the other socio-economic determinants of female labor force participation rate. This paper employs a recent household labor market survey that was conducted in Izmir during the summer of 2010 covering 9,756 individuals. Our initial findings based on logit estimations indicate that the gender role attitude associated with the job market behavior of the mother is an important determinant of female labor force participation. However, the same effect loses its significance once we control for women’s own job experience. This result suggests that although the gender role attitude associated with the job market behavior of the mother can induce women to participate in the labor market initially, the same attitude can change by women’s own experience in the job market and affect labor force participation rate adversely. The results of this paper are also robust when the sample is disaggregated by education in order to account for the difference between less and more educated women in the labor market.

Keywords: labor force participation; Turkey; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2012-12
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