Discriminating factors of women's employment

Angela Cipollone () and Carlo D'Ippoliti

Applied Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 17, issue 11, 1055-1062

Abstract: Italy exhibits a dramatic level of territorial heterogeneity in terms of socio-economic dynamics and in the economic position of women. We employ this territorial variance to assess the impact of selected policies and institutions on men's and women's employment using microeconomic data. Such an analysis provides results partly different from what was expected on the basis of cross-country aggregate evidence on industrialized countries. Aggregate growth and tertiarization of the economy are surprisingly found beneficial only to men's employment, while culture and discrimination are relevant for women's. Social Assistance is found highly significant too, with the provision of services being more beneficial to women's employment than monetary transfers.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/00036840902762712

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