Relationship between Fertility and Female Labor Participation in Iran

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Asadi, Ghadir | 2012

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 43992 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management & Economics
Advisor(s): Keshavarz Haddad, Gholamreza
Abstract:
Despite the fact that total fertility rate has a drastic decrease from 6.6 in 1980 to 1.8 childeren in 2008 and their education was highly growing in the last two decades, their participation in labor market is stillrelatively low(with maximum rate of 17.5 in 2007). Making use of the Iranian Household Expenditure and Income Survey(HEIS) and yearly labor market surveys (1984-2009), we intend to investigate the interaction between fertility(FER) and female labor participation(FLP) in Iran, for both the population with ages of 10-64 and 18-30. We use simultaneousequations by GMM to estimate the system of equation. Our findings show that the sign of FER’s determinants are as expected, but FLP can’t be well explained by its determinants. Prensence of a positive relationship between FER and FLP contradicts with our prior considerations. Reestimation of the empirical model for 18-30 years old population solves the mentioned ambiguity and explicitly explains the cause of the low FLP, in Iran
Keywords:
Fertility Rate ; Generalized Moments Methods ; Female Labor Participation ; Female's Education

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