Estimating the Impact of the 2008-09 Economic Crisis on Work Time in Turkey

Bahce S. A., MEMİŞ PARMAKSIZ E.

FEMINIST ECONOMICS, cilt.19, sa.3, ss.181-207, 2013 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13545701.2013.786182
  • Dergi Adı: FEMINIST ECONOMICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.181-207
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Economic crisis, gender inequality, time use, unemployment, unpaid work, Turkey, HOUSEHOLD WORK, ALLOCATION, GENDER, MARRIAGE, MARKET, MODELS, LABOR
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Using the first nationwide Turkish Time-Use Survey of 2006, this contribution provides estimates of the impact of the 2008-09 economic crisis on paid and unpaid work time in Turkey. Linking spouse's unemployment risk with time-use patterns of women and men, the authors find that a 1 percentage point rise in spouse's unemployment risk increases women's total work time by 5 percent (22 minutes per day), while the rise is 1 percent (2.7 minutes per day) for men. The rise in unpaid work time for women is approximately four times more than that for men. These differences between women and men are much sharper in urban areas than in rural ones. Results support the argument that economic crises reinforce the preexisting gender gap in work time. The method developed here can be applied to other developing country cases, where there is a lack of longitudinal data availability.