Economic crises and the added worker effect in the Turkish labor market

Arbeitspapier

Turkish economic growth has been characterized by periodic crises since financial liberalization reforms were enacted in the early 1990s. Given the phenomenally low female labor force participation rate in Turkey (one of the lowest in the world) and the limited scope of the country's unemployment insurance scheme, there appears to be ample room for a female added worker effect as a household strategy against unemployment shocks under economic crises. Using micro data from household labor force surveys for the 2004-10 period, we examine the extent to which an unemployment shock to the primary male earner instigates female members of the household to move from nonparticipant status to labor market participation. ...

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 774

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: Labor Supply ; Economic Crisis: Turkey

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Değirmenci, Serkan ; İlkkaracan, İpek
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
• (where): Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/110024
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET