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The female labor force participation level in Turkey is currently very low at 27 percent compared with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD and European Union, or EU-19 averages of 61 and 64 percent respectively. This rate has been declining in the last 30 years from a level of 48 percent in 1980. This paper looks at the most recent trends and profiles of labor force participation of women in Turkey using three different household level data sources in available Turkey (HBS, LFS and TDHS) for the period 2003-2006. The paper also reports a multivatiate analysis on the probability of working for women, controlling for various characteristics.

After half a century of sustained growth, female labor force participation has
decelerated in Latin America, especially among married vulnerable women. Based on a
large database of microdata from household surveys, this paper documents this recent
deceleration and provides evidence on the determinants. We argue that the fast economic
growth experienced by the region in the 2000s was an important driving force: lower
unemployment and higher earnings of male partners plus increased social assistance may
have reduced the pressing need for vulnerable women to take low-quality jobs.
JEL Codes: J2, J1

Abstract The decisions of farm wives to work off the farm and the earnings they make in that off‐farm employment should be considered simultaneously. Previous studies of wives' off‐farm earnings have included only employed wives in their analyses of the factors affecting earnings, which results in biased estimates. This study tests, via Tobit analysis, a model which includes all farm wives and examines the effects of wives' human capital, farm and family constraints, and labor market characteristics on both their off‐farm employment decisions and their earnings. Wives' off‐farm earnings are found to be related to wives' education, labor market experience, presence of children, other family income, farm size, and debt/income ratio. Changes in these factors have a greater influence on the labor market participation decisions of farm wives than on the variation in their earnings, once employed.