Analysis of Factors Affecting the Work Participation of Married Women According to Ethnicity in Pekanbaru

Abstract

The development process is carried out during this brought progress in the economic field. The impact of economic progress is the increasing breadth of employment opportunities available. This resulted in the entry of women in the labor market. For married perempun entering the labor market is influenced by many things, such as age, age at first marriage, family size, number of family members working, the husband education level, type of work, wages tend to rise. Apart from that, the values ​​of cultural (ethnic) attached to married women also determines the reasons married women entering the labor market. Moving on from this writer is willing to do the research that will pay attention to factors that affect the labor force participation of married women from the ethnic Malay, Minang, Javanese, Batak and Chinese in order to determine and analyze (1) the effect of demographic aspects, economic aspects and social aspects of the participation working married women of ethnic Malays, Minang, Javanese, Batak and Chinese, (2) what is the most dominant factor affecting the labor force participation of married women their respective ethnic groups. The population in this study is married women from the ethnic Malay, Minang, Javanese, Batak and Chinese. The number of samples in this study was 398 respondents. To answer the research questions, the data obtained in the field analysis using linear regression. The results of the study are demographic aspects, economic aspects and social aspects affect the labor force participation of married women from the ethnic Malay, Minang, Javanese, Batak and Chinese in the city of Pekanbaru, but the pattern was different between the ethnic with other ethnic groups. Wages is the variable most dominant influence on labor force participation of married women from the ethnic Malay, Minang and Java, while the ethnic Batak most dominant variable is the type of work. While the Chinese people the most dominant variable is the age of mating I. The results indicate whether ethnic cultural adaptation of local ethnicity against ethnic migrants, of ethnic immigrants against local ethnic as well as among ethnic immigrants. Apart from that was also found that some ethnic still maintain the values ​​instilled in advance or still maintain cultural values ​​lama.Temuan-above findings expected to be a contribution in the field of labor economics, especially of women workers who are married.

Keywords: Special Labor, Employment Participation of Married Women, and Ethnicity