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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of married women with similar education levels. Controlling...
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey : Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?
Karaoglan, Deniz - 2012
underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104952
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Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey : A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013
Tunali, İnsan - 2020
We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic …. We also show that Turkey has reached the turning point of the U-shaped pattern in female participation. In addition, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844827
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Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days Out of Work by Gender : Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2017
The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940849
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English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
Di Paolo, Antonio - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870337
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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey : Conflicting or Compatible Roles?
Ozgoren, Ayse - 2018
two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … exponential modelling, using data from the 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this … employment among women in Turkey, with increasing intensities identified among some groups of women. Our findings also cast light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930918
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Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249123
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The Role of Culture on Female Labor Supply : Evidence from Turkey
Akyol, Pelin - 2019
distinct Muslim denominations in Turkey: Sunni and Alevi Muslims. We find a positive and significant effect of being an Alevi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862468
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Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers
Meng, Xin - 2010
Hundreds of millions of rural migrants have moved into Chinese cities since the early 1990s contributing greatly to economic growth, yet, they are often blamed for reducing urban 'native' workers' employment opportunities, suppressing their wages and increasing pressure on infrastructure and...
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