Women’s Health and Their Labor Force Participation: A Panel Data Analysis

Salma Audiena Alfaizah, Metana Puspitasari

Abstract


The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of women's health on women’s labor participation in ASEAN countries during the period 2010 to 2017. We use a panel data approach to estimate the model. The results confirm the findings in the literature that women's health has a positive and significant influence on women's labor participation. The results show that women’s prevalence of HIV, women’s adolescent fertility, and women’s life expectancy has a significant effect on women’s labor participation in ASEAN countries. Countries should pay more attention to women's health to change the women's labor supply. The existing literature shows that women's labor participation depends on women's health. However, there is no quantitative study examining the role of women's health, specifically the women’s prevalence of HIV affect on FLFP in ASEAN countries.


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women’s health; women’s labor participation; panel data

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birci.v5i3.6133

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