Document Type : Practical article

Authors

• Zahra Mila Elmi ¹
• Shahyar Zaroki ²
• Sayyedeh Mona Mahdavi Chabok ³

¹ Associate Professor, University of Mazandaran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, University of Mazandaran, Iran

³ Master in Economics, Mazandaran University, Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, the female participation rate is known as one of the reasons of societies' development. Hence, this study explores some of the effective factors such as education, marital status, age, and female-headed households on female participation probability in labor market. To achieve this goal, by using micro data of household survey in 2011, which is carried out by the Statistical Center of Iran, Panel Data with Limited Dependent Variable Models is estimated with maximum likelihood approach. Based on the obtained results, in the urban area of Iran, low levels of education (primary and secondary), could not cause the entry of women into the labor market, higher levels of education, however, especially university education, would cause the entry of women into the labor market. Divorced and single women have a positive effect on the probability of female participation rate, but widows have shown to have a negative effect. The relationship between age and the likelihood of participation of women is an inverted U; that is, at a young age, women are more likely to take part in the labor market than middle-age women. Being female-headed households also has a positive effect on the probability of female participation.

Keywords

• Education
• marital status
• female participation rate
• household survey data
• panel data with limited dependent variable models
• urban areas of Iran

Main Subjects

• economics