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Essays on Female Labor Force Participation: Tendencies, Culture and Fertility

In line with the recent developments in the literature, this dissertation examines the determinants of female labor force participation by employing a variety of econometric techniques. First paper of my dissertation uses a competing risks model and studies the reasons behind the high inactivity rates among recent school leaver women. Following the results of the first paper, the second paper focuses on cultural background as a potential determinant of the female labor force participation decision. The second paper uses the epidemiological approach to identify the effects of culture. Both papers investigate the underlying causes of low female labor market attachment in a developing country context, namely Turkey. The third paper aims to establish the links between cultural background and economic outcomes. Specifically, it investigates how cultural background affects fertility as well as labor force participation using a dynamic structural model. The third paper uses data gathered from German Socioeconomic Panel (G-SOEP) of 1984-2013.

Date:1 Oct 2013 →  31 Dec 2019
Keywords:Labor force participation, Gender, Fertility
Disciplines:Applied economics, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism
Project type:PhD project