Abstract:

Employment growth is one of the main macroeconomic targets of the countries. Nowadays, the inclusion of women in the production process and the creation of employment areas are important to achieve this goal. In this study, the relationships between female employment and economic growth are examined by the symmetric and asymmetric causality tests covering the period from 1988 to 2015 for Turkey. According to the results of Toda Yamamoto (1995) symmetric causality test, there is a unidirectional and statistically significant causality running from female employment to total and service sector’s gross domestic product. The findings of Hatemi-J (2012) asymmetric causality test show that a unidirectional causality is moving from the negative shocks of female employment to the negative shocks of total and service sector’s gross domestic product. In addition, both symmetric and asymmetric causality test results indicate that there is no causal relationship between female employment and industry and agriculture sectors. The result of both causality tests supports each other. Consequently, the empirical results show that female employment has no impact on the agriculture and industry sectors. Female employment is supporting to economic growth through the service sector in Turkey.

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