Determinants of female (non-) participation in the urban labour force in Turkey

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1998

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Özar, Şemsa
Günlük-Şenesen, Gülay

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This study attempts to explore the determinants of non-participation, that is, factors influencing women's decision not to enter the labour force in urban Turkey. It adopts an approach which emphasises women's socio-demographic characteristics and their family backgrounds. The evidence comes from a field survey undertaken in four big cities of Turkey during Fall 1995. Factors underlying female non-participation are discussed on the basis of two logistic regression models, one for the whole data set and another for the subset of married women. The findings of the models indicate the importance of the role of women as "wives and mothers" in the household as a determinant of non-participation.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108366

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