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https://doi.org/10.5559/di.20.1.04
Socio-Demographic Determinants of Female Employment in Croatia
Jakov GELO
; Ekonomski fakultet, Zagreb
Šime SMOLIĆ
; Ekonomski fakultet, Zagreb
Marin STRMOTA
; Ekonomski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
In this paper the authors define the effects of selected socio-
-demographic predictors – age, education, number of
children, marital status of women and having a preschool
child – on female employment in Croatia. In the very first
part of this article a vast review of literature relating to the
research of the causes and consequences of female labour
force participation is presented. The findings in this paper
are based on the analysis of the micro data from the Labour
Force Survey in the second and fourth quarters of 2007. A
total number of 2462 women were included in the sample;
though some groups of women were excluded afterwards,
e.g. women still schooling and some less represented marital
status profiles (divorced, widowed etc.). In the second part of
the paper the authors use descriptive data analysis relating
the independent variables to the three variations of a
dependent variable. Moreover, in order to identify the significant predictors of female employment, a multinomial
logistic regression (logistic regression extension) is employed.
Education, number of children, age of woman, marital status
and having a preschool child are the significant predictors of
female employment while marriage status is not significant in
the model.
Ključne riječi
female labour force participation; education of women; number of children; employment
Hrčak ID:
65352
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Datum izdavanja:
17.3.2011.
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