Is There a Case for Intergenerational Transmission of Female Labour Force Participation and Educational Attainment? Evidence From Greece During The Crisis

Abstract

The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of female educational attainment and the intergenerational transmission of labour force participation in Greece, in 2011. Results show that parental educational background, and especially maternal, is identified as a key determinant of women's high level of educational achievement. A wife's labour force participation decision is related to her husband's mother's and mother's participation, and even more strongly related to her own level of educational achievement along with the number of children in the household. The labour force participation of the mother of the husband is more important than that of the woman's own mother, indicating a strong transmission of the husband's cultural model. Results point to the presence of heterogeneity of cultural transmission of female labour supply conditional on household income.

Intergenerational Transmission of Spousal Inequality

“…Kawaguchi•& Miyazaki explained that sons of working women prefer working wives to traditional wives. Papapetrou & Tsalaporta (2018) suggested that in Greece, a wife's labor market participation is impacted by both her mother's and mother-in-law's participation. Li & Liu (2019) tested the correlation between daughter-in-law and mother-inlaw by son's gender-role attitude and household productivity based on Chinese data.…”