Patriarchal Norms, Religion, and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey

Yasemin Dildar

World Development, 2015, vol. 76, issue C, 40-61

Abstract: Despite significant structural and social change, the share of women working or seeking jobs in Turkey has declined. This paper focuses on the role of social conservatism as a constraint for women’s labor force participation using 2008 Demographic and Health Survey data. In analyzing labor supply model, I incorporate cultural constraints, specifically the sexual division of labor in the household and broader gender ideology into the analysis. I find that both patriarchal norms and religiosity are negatively associated with female labor force participation, and that the impact of patriarchal norms is statistically significant after controlling for endogeneity.

Keywords: labor force participation; gender; development; patriarchal norms; religiosity; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.06.010

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