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Individual Married Female Labor Supply: An Application of Parametric & Non-Parametric Econometric Analysis

Bagheri Ghanbarabadi, Morteza | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 39212 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Keshavarz Haddad, Gholamreza
  7. Abstract:
  8. Iranian female participation rate in the labor market of Iran in the recent decade shows a raising trend which amounted from 8% in 1999 to 18% in 2005. Using Parametric and Non-parametric econometrics Methods, in this research we aim to study the behavior of individual female labor supply. Our dataset consist of the annually budget survey of 2006 which is reported by statistical center of Iran. Our findings from parametric analysis show that the number of less than 6-years old children, non-labor income, husband’s income and geographic area (rural or urban district) are the main determinants of women’s participation in the labor market, and they affect negatively probability of the market participation. Moreover, age and education level increase the probability but number of children greater than 6-years is not a significant variable in the model. On the other hand, result of the Non-parametric model is somehow different. Findings indicate that individual labor participation have not identical pattern for all of females. Namely; reaction of individuals to explanatory variables are different, such that of the labor reacted positively to the number of kids greater than 6 and of them reacted negatively to kids less than 6. Also the kids lass/grater than 6 years affect dissimilarly the decisions of rural and urban female labor. Kids greater than 6 positively affect the probability of participation in urban, but the sign is negative in rural areas.
  9. Keywords:
  10. Labor Market ; Female Labor Supply ; Parametric Methods ; Nonparametric Method

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