The Effects of Disability on Labor Market Outcomes in Türkiye: Evidence from Household Labor Force Survey

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2024-2-12

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Karabağlı, Naz

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The objective of this thesis is to examine the effect of disability on the labor market outcomes of individuals aged between 25 to 54 in Turkey. The Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (LFS) and the ad-hoc module of “Employment of Disabled People” for the year 2011 are used for this study. The current concept of disability, as defined by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO, 2001) was tried to be captured by combining an individual's self-reported health problems and difficulties in basic activities into a unique disability definition. The disability definition was further expanded into severity categories, by adding limitations in work and special assistance needed or used by people with disabilities. First, the probit estimation is used to see the relationship between disability and labor force participation, wage employment, employment, and part-time employment separately by gender. Further probabilities were estimated to differentiate the effect of disability among demographic factors including age, marital status, dependent children, residence type and level of education, and household income. The fundamental complications, namely selection bias, endogeneity of control variables, and measurement of disability were questioned in this empirical study. Considering the cross-sectional but informative structure of LFS and the ad-hoc module of the year 2011, a probit estimation and a matching on the propensity score estimation approach were employed. While recognizing the difficulties in identifying the effect of disability on labor market outcomes, this thesis attempts to assess and compare the effect of severity of disability on labor market outcomes by gender.

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Disability, Labor Market, HLFS, Türkiye

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108333

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis