| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 財政學系 === 101 === In recent years, the overall female labor force participation rate in Taiwan has presented an upward trend, but the increase in the female labor force participation rate among the counties have been inconsistent. To probe this circumstance, this study uses the panel data of 23 counties from the Statistical Yearbook Issued by Each County, the Yearbook of Manpower Survey Statistics and the Statistical Yearbook of the Interior over the period 1998-2010 to estimate the effects of regional characteristics on female labor force participation rate and female labor force participation rate of married women by applying the OLS regression model and the fixed effect model.
The main empirical results of female labor force participation rate can be summarized as follows. First, the estimated effects of divorce rate and out-of-wedlock birth rate are positive and significant; these effects represent the rise of women economic independence. Second, the estimated effects of marriage rate and youth dependency ratios are negative and significant because of the responsibilities of child rearing and household management. Third, the lagged unemployment rate yields a negative and significant influence through the discourage worker effect. Finally, female labor force participation rate remains determined to a significant extent by the industrial structure.
The main empirical results of female labor force participation rate of married women are: First, the influences of youth dependency ratios and industrial structure are consistent with the estimated effects in female labor force participation rate. Second, net migration rate has a positive and significant effect; this effect implies that married women choose a region with the better employment conditions to boost her labor force participation through the migration behavior. Finally, the percentage of college degree and over among married women has a negative and significant effect. Since high educated women are relatively more likely to marry high educated men, husband’s higher earnings produce an income effect that lowers wife’s work incentives.
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