Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Justina A. V. Fischer and Francesco Pastore

No 9244, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among women of any age since 1997. For non-OECD-Europe, we find differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under communist regimes. Only Muslim women show a lower employment probability that persists across time, regions, and life cycles.

Keywords: religion; labor market participation; modernization; gender; Europe; transition countries; Eastern Europe; OECD; World Values Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 J16 J22 N34 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2015-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur and nep-ltv
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp9244.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: religion and female employment over time (2016)
Working Paper: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: religion and female employment over time (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp9244

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().