Discrimination in Access to Job Opportunities for Mothers in the Urban Labor Market of Iran
According to the data of the International Labor Organization (ILO), in 2022, among people aged 25 to 54, mothers with young children have a lower chance of participating in the labor market than their peers; so the labor participation gap for this group increases from 29.2 percent for women to 42.6...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Persian |
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University of Isfahan
2024-08-01
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| Series: | اقتصاد شهری |
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| Online Access: | https://ue.ui.ac.ir/article_29199_c8e2ffb760337ae15bcbbd4ad3d2d5b3.pdf |
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| Summary: | According to the data of the International Labor Organization (ILO), in 2022, among people aged 25 to 54, mothers with young children have a lower chance of participating in the labor market than their peers; so the labor participation gap for this group increases from 29.2 percent for women to 42.6 percent for mothers. The part of this gap that cannot be explained by human capital factors is called discrimination. In Iran, there are not many Experimental studies on discrimination in the labor market for mothers. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the existence of discrimination in accessing job opportunities for mothers compared to other women in the urban labor market of Iran using data from the urban household expenditure-income plan and the logit model. The estimation results show that motherhood reduces women's chances of employment by 5 percent. The variable of male activity rate has a greater effect on the dependent variable, i.e. women's employment, than any other dependent variable and motherhood is in second place. Also, it can be said that by controlling for all variables affecting labor supply and demand and culture, motherhood still affects women's employment |
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| ISSN: | 2588-4867 |