Cointegration and causality between fertility and female labor participation in Taiwan: A multivariate approach

Cheng, Benjamin S.

doi:10.1007/bf02298338

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“…Therefore, their ARDL long-run estimates do not support either the societal response hypothesis or role incompatibility hypothesis as they found no evidence that working women tend to have fewer children; and that having more children at home discourages the participation of women in the labour force. Their finding is, however, in agreement with Cheng (1999) who found no causality from fertility through FLPR in Taiwan.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturesupporting

confidence: 86%

Fertility, education, and female labour participation

Shittu

Abdullah

2019

IJSE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among fertility, female education and female labour participation in ASEAN-7 countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, between 1990 and 2015. The choice of these countries is informed by their economic, social and political importance in the ASEAN Bloc; while Indonesia boasts of the largest population in ASEAN, Brunei and Malaysia boast of relatively advanced economies, in GDP terms. Design/methodology/approach Pesaran’s test of panel unit root in the presence of cross-sectional dependence was employed to test for the stationarity properties of the series. The dynamic long-run coefficients of the variables were examined using the pooled mean group, common correlated effect and dynamic OLS techniques, while the Granger causality test was used to estimate the direction of causality among the variables. Findings The findings indicate that there is both negative and positive relationship between fertility and labour force participation, with causality running from labour force participation through fertility – on the one hand, and between education and labour force participation, with no causality between the two – on the other hand. Research limitations/implications The study, therefore, upholds the role incompatibility and societal response hypothesis, as well as human capital and opportunity cost theories. Practical implications The appropriate policies are those that gear the countries’ fertility decisions towards the societal response hypothesis in order to enhance human capital development and increase productivity. This implies that the governments of ASEAN-7 countries should ease hindrances on a balanced combination of family-care and workforce participation on married women in view of the gender-wage gap created by female work apathy, which largely reduces domestic productivities. Appropriate policies in this direction include rising availability and affordability of childcare facilities, incentives for women higher education, attitudinal changes towards job-participating mothers, as well as legislated paid parental leaves which have balanced the, hitherto, incompatibility between work and childbearing. Originality/value Except for Abdullah et al. (2013), the authors have no knowledge of other authors who have worked on this relationship in the chosen ASEAN countries. This study is, however, an improvement upon that of Abdullah et al. (2013) in different ways, one of which is that it considers seven ASEAN countries, thus making the results more valid representation of the ASEAN Bloc. Furthermore, the Pesaran (2007) technique of unit root testing has not been found in any recent literature on the subject-matter. This technique, being a second-generation test, tests variable unit root in the presence of cross-sectional dependence.

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Section: Review Of Related Literaturesupporting

confidence: 86%

Fertility, education, and female labour participation

Shittu

Abdullah

2019

IJSE

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“…Another example is Singapore, where, in 2007, a comprehensive package of policy to promote female employment was introduced that included flexible work arrangements, targeted active labor programs, and training programs (Teo 2010). Many other countries have attempted to tackle the issue of female labor force participation and declining fertility rates with such policy packages, producing a rich set of evidence that overall shows varying degrees of success (Bick 2015;Cheng 1999).…”

Section: Women's Labor Supply Childcare and Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Mothers Afford to Work in Poland: Labor Supply Incentives of Social Benefits and Childcare Costs

Morgandi¹,

Bargu

2018

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…In the US, Salamaliki et al (2013) found evidence in support of a bi-directional causality between fertility and FLFP for two groups of women, those aged between 25-34 and above 16. Cheng (1999) tested for a bi-directional link between fertility and FLFP in Taiwan but failed to find any significant connection between the two variables.…”

Section: A Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Does Economic Integration Increase Female Labour Force Participation? Some New Evidence From Vietnam

Narayan¹,

Nguyen²,

Nghiem³

2021

BEMP

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While several studies have, directly or indirectly, showed the importance of economic integration in job creation and destruction, direct empirical evidence for Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) is still sparse. We take the case of Vietnam – a country that has come out of poverty largely due to her export-induced economic growth – and examine the impacts on FLFP of economic integration over the period 1999-2014. Our results suggest that Vietnam’s export sector, which relies heavily on foreign direct investment and free trade agreements, is an important contributor to FLFP. Economic integration with high-income countries (compared to middle- and low-income countries) was found to be most beneficial to FLFP in Vietnam. Our results also indicate that some traditional drivers of FLFP (such as fertility rate, health status, female adolescents out of secondary school, government education spending, and standard of living) became more (or less) important as Vietnam became more economically integrated.

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Cointegration and causality between fertility and female labor participation in Taiwan: A multivariate approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Fertility, education, and female labour participation

Fertility, education, and female labour participation

Can Mothers Afford to Work in Poland: Labor Supply Incentives of Social Benefits and Childcare Costs

Does Economic Integration Increase Female Labour Force Participation? Some New Evidence From Vietnam

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