Determinant of employment decisions among ever-married women in East Java in 2024
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https://doi.org/10.12928/optimum.v16i2.17077Keywords:
Decision of Women, Women’s Participation, Labor Market, Labor Force Participation RateAbstract
Women's engagement in the job market helps to boost economic growth. Women, on the other hand, are inextricably linked to their social standing and familial obligations. Individual qualities, family, technology, area, and government initiatives all impact women's post-marital employment decisions. This study seeks to discover the determinants that impact ever-married women’s decision to work. The contribution of this research is expected to be the most recent empirical study to address the difficulties that women experience in labor market. This analysis makes use of secondary data from 2024 National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS), which includes 24,130 observations from 38 districts/cities in East Java Province. Binary logistic regression with survey weights was employed, and marginal effects were used to quantify the economic magnitude of the estimated relationship. In terms of economic magnitude, educational increases the probability of working by 1.86 percentage points, job training by 8.38 percentage points, internet access by 2.53 percentage points, household head status by 19.4 percentage points, and each additional year of age by 0.28 percentage points. Conversely, the presence of toddlers decreases by 13.12 percentage points, urban residence 5.07 percentage points, and the pre-employment card program by 5.37 percentage points. Marital status and household size do not have statistically effects on women’s employment decisions. These findings show that married women’s labor force participation is influenced by a number of individual, family, technology, and regional with the magnitude of these associations differing significantly between determinants.
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