KADIN İSTİHDAMINA FARKLI BİR BAKIŞ:HANEİÇİ İSTİHDAM
A Different Perspective for Employment of Women: Household with Employed Persons

Summary/Abstract: The role of the women in economic and social life is very important in terms of economic development. There are important differences between developed countries and developing countries such as Turkey. The low level involvement of women to employment blocks to their potentials and effects negatively social development. Turkey’s low level of women employment and human development index are parallel with each other In recent years, the women employment is the biggest trigger of the sector which recruits household personnel and growing more than economic development. Women are more involved economic life because of the immigration to cities and transition from large family to nuclear family style. Also, employed women cause more household with employed persons. The aim of this study is testing the effect of women employment on household with employed persons and economic development. The 2000Q1-2012Q4 data are used in this study and the analysis are completed by using Johansen co-integration and Granger causality tests. According to the results, the increasing of the women employment causes the increasing of the household with employed persons and it has a positive effect on economic development.

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