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Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries

This paper tends to investigate the ambiguous relationship between fertility and women’s labour force participation in the case of Malaysia and other selected Asian countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.Using a panel of observations for the period 1995 to 2009...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Norehan, Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin, Abdullah, Hussin
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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H Social Sciences (General)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/JOEBM.2013.V1.63
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spelling my.uum.repo.94212016-04-14T06:34:57Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/9421/ Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries Abdullah, Norehan Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin Abdullah, Hussin H Social Sciences (General) This paper tends to investigate the ambiguous relationship between fertility and women’s labour force participation in the case of Malaysia and other selected Asian countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.Using a panel of observations for the period 1995 to 2009, this study examines the correlation and panel causality effect between fertility rate, female labour force participation, and other fertility factors.The panel analysis was done on the six selected ASEAN countries (ASEAN-6), as well as for each of the individual country. This study found that there is mixed correlation between the regression variables in ASEAN countries but none of them have a strong correlation.The results on causality tests show that primary education, health expenditure, life expectancy at birth, labour participation rate, and self-employed - female do not granger-cause fertility rate in all six ASEAN countries.However there is a unidirectional causality which runs from fertility rate to education primary, life expectancy at birth and labour participation rate. 2013-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/9421/1/6.pdf Abdullah, Norehan and Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin and Abdullah, Hussin (2013) Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries. Journal of Economics, Business and Management, 1 (3). pp. 291-294. ISSN 23013567 http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/JOEBM.2013.V1.63 doi:10.7763/JOEBM.2013.V1.63
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
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Abdullah, Norehan
Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin
Abdullah, Hussin
Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
description This paper tends to investigate the ambiguous relationship between fertility and women’s labour force participation in the case of Malaysia and other selected Asian countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.Using a panel of observations for the period 1995 to 2009, this study examines the correlation and panel causality effect between fertility rate, female labour force participation, and other fertility factors.The panel analysis was done on the six selected ASEAN countries (ASEAN-6), as well as for each of the individual country. This study found that there is mixed correlation between the regression variables in ASEAN countries but none of them have a strong correlation.The results on causality tests show that primary education, health expenditure, life expectancy at birth, labour participation rate, and self-employed - female do not granger-cause fertility rate in all six ASEAN countries.However there is a unidirectional causality which runs from fertility rate to education primary, life expectancy at birth and labour participation rate.
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author Abdullah, Norehan
Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin
Abdullah, Hussin
author_facet Abdullah, Norehan
Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin
Abdullah, Hussin
author_sort Abdullah, Norehan
title Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
title_short Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
title_full Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
title_fullStr Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
title_full_unstemmed Fertility model and female labour force participation in selected ASEAN countries
title_sort fertility model and female labour force participation in selected asean countries
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/9421/1/6.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/9421/
http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/JOEBM.2013.V1.63
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