Women's labor force participation and marriage: The case of Korea

Lee, Bun Song; Soomyung, Jang; Sarkar, Jayanta

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2007.12.012

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“…Thus, low female employment and workforce participation rates could be associated with employers' preferences and characteristics. Lee et al (2008) find that low labour force participation rates among married women are driven by demand-side factors in South Korea. Buchanan et al (2010) underline the importance of demand-side factors that affect female employment and workforce participation rates, focusing on the demand for skilled workers.…”

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Female employment in MENA’s manufacturing sector: the implications of firm-related and national factors

Fakih

Ghazalian

2015

Econ Change Restruct

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has realized significant advances toward improving women's well-being and social status over the last few decades. However, women's employment rate in the MENA region remains one of the lowest in the world. This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for female employment in manufacturing firms located in the MENA region. The empirical analysis is implemented for firm-level data derived from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys database. It uses fractional logit and other econometric models to perform the estimations for female overall employment, female non-production employment, and female employment in managerial positions. The results reveal significant implications of firm-related factors, such as private foreign ownership, exporting activities, firm size, and labour composition, for female employment. They also show that national factors, such as economic development and gender equality, promote female employment. There are considerable differences in the estimated marginal effects across female employment categories. This paper provides policy-makers with directions to design strategies aiming at enhancing women's economic opportunities and employment rates.

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Female employment in MENA’s manufacturing sector: the implications of firm-related and national factors

Fakih

Ghazalian

2015

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“…Furthermore, female labor force participation rate by age displays an M-shaped pattern in Korea, which suggests that a large fraction of women leave the labor market upon marriage and childbearing and then return after their children reach school age. This implies that a strongly gendered division of labor in work and family roles prevails (Lee, Jang, and Sarkar 2008).…”

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The changing role of employment status in marriage formation among young Korean adults

Kim¹

2017

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BACKGROUNDDespite a persistent decline in Korea's marriage rates over the past three decades, there is a striking lack of research on the transition to marriage among young Koreans. Similarly, few studies have examined how economic determinants have evolved over the past several decades, even as the Korean social and socioeconomic structure has undergone substantial transformation. METHODS This paper examines changes over time in the determinants of marriage formation inKorea, using employment history data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) on three cohorts of young adults born in the 1950s-1970s. RESULTSResults indicate that, for women, the marital implications of being employed reversed over the three decades examined. While working decreased the odds of getting married for women born in the 1950s, it had no statistically significant effect for those born in the 1960s, and it strongly increased the odds of marriage for the most recent (1970s) cohort of women. For their part, men's employment not only continued to positively predict getting married over the three decades, but its impact became stronger with each cohort, so that a man's odds of transition to first marriage was most strongly tied to his employment status for those born in the 1970s, as compared to earlier cohorts. CONTRIBUTIONThis study contributes to the literature by addressing the relationship between marriage timing and economic resources using more direct measures, examining the association between mandatory military service and marriage formation, and testing if determinants of marriage timing may evolve over time in Korea.

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“…Then, what prevents wives from realising their desires to work for pay? Scholars appear to reach the consensus that the heavy burden of family responsibilities drags down Korean married women from participation in the labour market (Won and Pascall, 2004;Turner and Monk-Turner, 2007;Lee et al, 2008).…”

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“…Extant literature reaches the consensus that the family structure strongly influences a wife's chance of employment in Korea (Lee et al, 2008). In particular, whether she lives with her own parents increases the possibility of her being employed because her parents can reduce the burden of family responsibilities, thereby freeing the time needed for paid work outside of the home.…”

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Separate but Near: Senior Parents’ Living Arrangement and Married Women’s Employment in South Korea

Lee

2011

Asian Journal of Social Science

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Women's labor force participation and marriage: The case of Korea

Cited by 52 publications

References 11 publications

Female employment in MENA’s manufacturing sector: the implications of firm-related and national factors

Female employment in MENA’s manufacturing sector: the implications of firm-related and national factors

The changing role of employment status in marriage formation among young Korean adults

Separate but Near: Senior Parents’ Living Arrangement and Married Women’s Employment in South Korea

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