Culture, Gender, and Structural Transformation: The Case of Turkey
So Kubota ()
No 1925, Working Papers from Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics
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In this article, I propose a macroeconomic approach to measure cross-country differences in culture. This method is applied to explain the drastic decline in the Turkish female employment rate over a half-century. I construct a quantitative general equilibrium model of worker allocation by industry and gender. A cross-country simulation finds that Turkish families' social stigma due to female employment is 39% higher than that of the U.S. Its magnitude is comparable to the scale in Egypt but is significantly higher than the Greek case. I also find consistent microeconometric evidence in the European Social Survey.
Keywords: Culture; Female Labor; Structural Transformation; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J16 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2020-03
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