EMPLOYMENT CONDITION, THE EFFECTS OF HUSBAND’S OCCUPATION, AND EDUCATION ON PARTICIPATION OF MARRIED WOMEN IN THE INDONESIAN LABOR MARKET

  • Muhammad Rizqon Agusta Agusta BPS
  • Diny Ghuzini Universitas Gadjah Mada
Keywords: female labor participation, husband’s occupation, husband’s education, married women, informal worker

Abstract

A previous study has shown that households with both the head and the spouse joining the labor force tend to exit from poverty. In Indonesia, women that actively participated in labor market were relatively small, only around 50% in 2017. Meanwhile, most of the women in Indonesia were married in 2017. A husband was one of the factors affecting their wife’s decision to participate in labor market. This study investigates married women’s employment conditions and the effects of husband’s occupation and education on their labor market participation. The research sample consists of women aged 15-year-old and above, married, and living with their husband. We found that the higher the husband’s education, the lower married women’s probability of participating in the labor market. Husbands with an informal occupation increased married women’s probability to be in the labor force.

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Published
2020-12-31
How to Cite
Agusta, Muhammad Rizqon Agusta, and Diny Ghuzini. 2020. “EMPLOYMENT CONDITION, THE EFFECTS OF HUSBAND’S OCCUPATION, AND EDUCATION ON PARTICIPATION OF MARRIED WOMEN IN THE INDONESIAN LABOR MARKET”. Jurnal Ekonomi Dan Pembangunan 28 (2), 145-55. https://doi.org/10.14203/JEP.28.2.2020.145-155.
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