Research Article

The Relationship between Women’s Employment and Divorce: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey

Volume: 6 Number: 1 March 25, 2019
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The Relationship between Women’s Employment and Divorce: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey

Abstract

The number of studies examining the relationship between women’s employment and divorce is limited in the literature. In the majority of studies on this subject and all of the studies on Turkey, female employment variable was not analyzed in detail according to marital status. In this study, unlike other studies, it is aimed to contribute to the literature by including the variable of female employment according to marital status. For this reason, relations between both married and divorced women employees and divorce in Turkey were analyzed with cointegration tests for the period 1988-2013. According to the obtained empirical results, there is no long-run relationship from the number of married women to the number of divorces (ND). On the other hand, there is a positive relationship from the number of divorces to the number of divorced employed women.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Labor Economics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

March 25, 2019

Submission Date

September 7, 2019

Acceptance Date

March 16, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Telatar, O. M. (2019). The Relationship between Women’s Employment and Divorce: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey. Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi, 6(1), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.616875

Cited By

International Journal of Economics and Innovation

Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Economics, 61080, Trabzon/Türkiye

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ueyd


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