Arbeitspapier

English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

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, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational status. The multinomial equation that explains labour market status allows for a different effect of language knowledge on the probability of being employed, unemployed but actively looking for a job, an unpaid family worker or involved in household tasks. The results indicate that being proficient in English is conditionally associated with a higher probability of being employed as a wage earner and, to a lesser extent, unemployed but looking for a job, whereas it decreases the likelihood of being involved in household tasks. Moreover, there is a significant conditional correlation between having a high level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially) occupation dummies are included as additional controls. Indeed, being proficient in English barely affects occupational status when selection into employment status is controlled for. Therefore, the knowledge of foreign languages (in this case English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the occupational position of women in the Turkish labour market.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 319

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Thema
English skills
females
labour market status
earnings
occupation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Di Paolo, Antonio
Tansel, Aysit
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(wo)
Maastricht
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Di Paolo, Antonio
  • Tansel, Aysit
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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