Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa () and Manuela Stranges

LABOUR, 2019, vol. 33, issue 1, 101-123

Abstract: We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy. Following the ‘epidemiological approach’, we relate the probability of being in the labor force in Italy for immigrant women with the female labor force participation (LFP) in their country of origin, taken as a proxy of cultural heritage and gender role model, finding a strong positive impact. We show that this relationship cannot be attributed to human capital quality or discrimination and it is stronger for immigrants that maintained more intense ties with their origin countries.

Date: 2019
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Working Paper: CULTURAL VALUES AND DECISION TO WORK OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN ITALY (2014)
Working Paper: Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy (2014)
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