DETERMINANTS OF REGIONAL FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN TURKEY

Year 2017, Volume: 35 Issue: 3, 83 - 102, 29.09.2017

Mehmet Güçlü

https://doi.org/10.17065/huniibf.340705

Cited By: 5

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out the determinants of female regional
labour force participation in Turkey. To that end, the spatial panel regression
models are estimated for the period of 2008-2013 by using the macro data set of
26 NUTS-2 regions. The empirical results suggest that the determinants are
education, marital status, youth dependency ratio, migration and unemployment
rate. In addition to these findings, our study has two other contributions.
Firstly, it is detected that there is a spatial dependence among the regions.
In other words, it is discovered that labour force participation rate in a
region is also affected by that of other regions. Secondly, the spillover
effects of the explanatory variables are also estimated. Hereby, the impacts of
the factors, which determine labour force participation rate in a region, both
on that region and neighbouring regions, are obtained individually.

Keywords

Regional female labour force participation rate, spatial panel econometrics, spatial dependence, spillover effects

TÜRKİYE’DE KADINLARIN BÖLGESEL İŞGÜCÜNE KATILIMININ BELİRLEYİCİLERİ

Abstract

Bu
çalışmada Türkiye’de kadınların bölgesel işgücüne katılımını belirleyen
unsurların tespit edilmesi amaç- lanmıştır. Bu amaçla, İBBS-2 düzeyinde 26
bölgeye ait (makro) verilerle 2008-2013 dönemi için mekânsal panel regresyon
modelleri tahminlenmiştir. Yapılan ampirik testler sonucunda kadınların
bölgesel işgücüne katılımını belirleyen faktörlerin, eğitim, medeni durum,
ebeveyne bağımlı çocuk oranı, göç ve işsizlik olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Bu sonuçlara
ek olarak iki önemli bulgu daha elde edilmiştir. Bunlardan ilki, bölgeler
arasında bir mekânsal bağımlılığın tespit edilmiş olmasıdır. Bu, bir bölgedeki
kadınların işgücüne katılımının komşu bölgelerdeki katılım oranlarından da
etkilendiğini anlamına gelmektedir. İkinci bulgu ise, bölgesel işgücüne
katılımı belirleyen faktörlerin dolaylı etkilerinin (yayılma etkilerinin)
ampirik olarak belirlenmiş olmasıdır. Böylelikle, bir bölgede kadınların
işgücüne katılımını belirleyen unsurların, hem o bölgenin hem de komşu
bölgelerin katılım oranları üzerindeki etkileri ayrı ayrı tespit edilmiştir

Keywords

Kadınların bölgesel işgücüne katılımı, mekânsal panel ekonometrisi, mekânsal bağımlılık, yayılma etkisi

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