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

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 143 - 155, 25.03.2019
https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.616875

Abstract

Literatürde kadın istihdamı ve boşanma arasındaki ilişkiyi inceleyen çalışma sayısı sınırlı sayıdadır. Bu konu ile ilgili yapılan çalışmaların büyük bir çoğunluğunda, Türkiye üzerine yapılan çalışmaların ise tamamında kadın istihdamı değişkeni medeni duruma göre ayrıntılı bir şekilde analiz edilmemiştir. Bu çalışmada diğer çalışmalardan farklı olarak kadın istihdamı değişkeni medeni duruma göre analize dahil edilerek literatüre katkı yapılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla Türkiye’de hem evli hem de boşanmış kadın çalışanlar ile boşanma arasındaki ilişkiler 1988-2013 dönemi için eşbütünleşme testleri ile analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen ampirik sonuçlara göre çalışan evli kadın sayısından boşanma sayısına doğru herhangi bir uzun dönem ilişkisi bulunmamaktadır. Buna karşın boşanma sayısından boşanmış çalışan kadın sayısına doğru pozitif yönlü bir ilişki bulunmaktadır.

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  • Üçler, G. and Kızılkaya O. (2014). Kadın İstihdamının Boşanma ve Doğurganlık Üzerine Etkileri: Türkiye Üzerine Bölgesel Panel Veri Analizi. Akademik, Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2(2), 28-43.
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  • Yazıcı, M. A. (2018). Medeni Durumun ve Eğitimin Kadınların İşgücüne Katılımına Etkisi: TÜİK Verileri Üzerine Ampirik Bir Çalışma. İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi, 5(2), 101-116.
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The Relationship between Women’s Employment and Divorce: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 143 - 155, 25.03.2019
https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.616875

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.

References

  • Bremmer, D. and Kesselring, R. (2014). Divorce and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Times-Series Data and Cointegration. Atlantic Economical Journal, 32(3), 157-190.
  • Bozkaya, G. (2013). Kadınların İşgücüne Katılımını Belirleyen Faktörler: Türkiye Üzerine Bir Analiz. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 3(5), 69-89.
  • Cafrı, R. and Çukadar, Ö. P. (2018). Boşanmanın Sosyo-Ekonomik Nedenleri Üzerine Mekânsal Ekonometrik Bir İnceleme. International Journal of Economic and Administrative Studies, Prof. Dr. Harun Terzi Özel Sayısı, 407-424.
  • Çatalbaş, K. G. (2015). Kadınların İşgücüne Katılımını Belirleyen Faktörlerin Belirlenmesi: Panel Veri Yaklaşımı. Kafkas Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 6(10), 249-280.
  • D'amico, R. (1983). Status Maintenance or Status Competition? Wife's Relative Wages as a Determinant of Labor Supply and Martial Instability. Social Forces, 61(4), 1186-1205.
  • Dickey, D. A. and Fuller, W. A. (1979). Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time-Series with a Unit Root. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(366), 427-431.
  • Enders, W. (2010). Applied Econometrics Time Series, 3th. Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Greene, W. H. and Quester, A. Q. (1982). Divorce Risk and Wives' Labor Supply Behavior. Social Science Quarterly, 63(1), 16-27.
  • Johansen, S. and Juselius, K. (1990). Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inferences on Cointegration with Applications to the Demand for Money. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 52(2), 169-210.
  • Johansen, S. (1991). Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Cointegrated Vectors in Gaussian Vector Autoregressive Models. Econometrica, 59(6), 1551-1580.
  • Johnson, W. and Skinner, J. (1986). Labor Supply and Marital Separation. The American Economic Review, 76(3), 455-469.
  • Kılıç, D. and Öztürk, S. (2014). Türkiye’de Kadınların İşgücüne Katılımı Önündeki Engeller ve Çözüm Yolları: Bir Ampirik Uygulama. Amme İdaresi Dergisi, 47(1), 107-130.
  • Kneip, T. and Bauer, G. (2007). Effects of Different Divorce Probabilities on Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility. http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/publications/wp/wp-102.pdf?gathStatIcon=true (Erişim: 16.03.2018).
  • Kutlar, A., Erdem, E. and Aydın, F. F. (2012). Kadınların İşgücüne Katılması İle Doğurganlık, Boşanma ve Ücret Haddi Arasındaki İlişki: Türkiye Üzerine Bir Araştırma. Bilgi Ekonomisi ve Yönetimi Dergisi, 7(1), 149-168.
  • Lombardo, K. V. (1999). Women's Rising Market Opportunities and Increased Labor Force Participation. Economic Inquiry, 37(2), 195-212.
  • Micheal, R. T. (1985). Consequences of the Rise in Female Labor Force Participation Rates: Questions and Probes. Journal of Labor Economics, 3(1), 117-146.
  • Montalto, P. C. (1994). Married Women's Labor Force Participation as Divorce Insurance. Financial Counseling and Planning, 5, 191-206.
  • Parkman, M. A. (1992). Unilateral Divorce and the Labor-Force Participation Rate of Married Women, Revisited. The American Economic Review, 82(3), 671-678.
  • Peters, E. H. (1986). Marriage and Divorce: Informational Constraints and Private Contracting. The American Economic Review, 76(3), 437-454.
  • Phillips, P. C. B. and Perron, P. (1988). Testing for a Unit Root in Time-Series Regression. Biometrika, 75(2), 334-346.
  • Poortman, A. and Kalmijn, M. (2002). Women’s Labour Market Position and Divorce in the Netherlands: Evaluating Economic Interpretations of the Work Effect. European Journal of Population, 18, 175-202.
  • Poortman, A. (2005). Women’s Work and Divorce: A Matter of Anticipation? A Research Note. European Sociological Review, 21(3), 301-309.
  • Sander, W. (1985). Women, Work, and Divorce. The American Economic Review, 75(3), 519-523.
  • Shapiro, D. and Shaw, L. (1985). Growth in Supply Force Attachment of Married Women: Accounting for Changes in the 1970s. Southern Economic Journal, 6(3), 307-29.
  • South, J. S. (1985). Economic Conditions and the Divorce Rate: A Time-Series Analysis of the Postwar United States. Journal of Marriage and Family, 47(1), 31-41.
  • Spitze, G. and South, S. (1985). Women's Employment, Time Expenditure, and Divorce. Journal of Family Issues, 6(3), 307-29.
  • Stevenson, B. (2008). Divorce Law and Women’s Labor Supply. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 5(4), 853-873.
  • Üçler, G. and Kızılkaya O. (2014). Kadın İstihdamının Boşanma ve Doğurganlık Üzerine Etkileri: Türkiye Üzerine Bölgesel Panel Veri Analizi. Akademik, Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2(2), 28-43.
  • Vignoli, D., Styrc, M., Matysiak, A. and Tocchioni, V. (2018). The positive impact of women’s employment on divorce: Context, selection, or anticipation?. Demographic Research, 38, 1057-1110.
  • Yazıcı, M. A. (2018). Medeni Durumun ve Eğitimin Kadınların İşgücüne Katılımına Etkisi: TÜİK Verileri Üzerine Ampirik Bir Çalışma. İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi, 5(2), 101-116.
  • Zengi, C. A. (2018). Türkiye’de Medeni Durumun Kadın İstihdamına Etkisi. Social Sciences Studies Journal, 4(18), 1659-1670.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Labor Economics
Journal Section Research Articles
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Osman Murat Telatar 0000-0003-3016-0534

Publication Date March 25, 2019
Submission Date September 7, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 6 Issue: 1

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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

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