The determination of factors that affect female labor force participation: Evidence from Turkey

Nowdays woman employment is important in point of enhancing the level of welfare and maintaining progress. However, there are many factors which influence the participation of woman to labour force. There are many primary facors such as marital status of women, education level, age, number of children and economical conditions can be lined up. In this study, it was examined the factors for women labor force participation in Turkey. It is estimated as an independent variable growth, rate of inflation, rate of unemployment, rate of fertility and productivity . Women employment have been searched by using the monthly datas of 2005- 2017 terms and the relationship between long and short term by using the method of late Distributed Autoregressive Model. Datas which used in this study, are obtained from the datas of Turkish Istatistical Institue and Central bank of the Turkish Republic. According to the result of analysis, while the growth and the rate of unemployment affect the women participation to the rate of labor force in short term in a negative way, in long term it affected in a positive way. It has seen in the rate of fertility, index of productivity and the rate of inflation.