The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labour Force Participation

Farré, Lídia; Vella, F.

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“…Among other things, these attitudes prescribe norms about the importance and appropriateness of educational attainment for men and women. Gender role attitudes are passed from one generation to the next (Farre and Vella, 2013). In transmitting their ideas about gender and educational attainment to their children, parents with traditional educational attainments, i.e.…”

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Gender in intergenerational educational persistence across time and place

2015

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Primarily using data from the 2010 European Social Survey, we analyze intergenerational educational persistence in 20 European countries, studying cross-country and cross-cluster differences; changes in the degree of intergenerational persistence over time; and the role of gender in determining educational persistence across generations. We find that persistence is highest in the Southern and Eastern European countries, and lowest in the Nordic countries. While persistence in the Nordic and Southern countries has declined over time, it has remained relatively steady in the rest of Europe. Our analysis highlights the importance of a detailed gender analysis in studying intergenerational persistence, finding that mothers' education is a stronger determinant of daughters' (instead of sons') education and fathers' education a stronger determinant of the education of their sons. For most clusters, declines in intergenerational persistence over time are largely driven by increasing mobility for younger women.JEL Classifications: J62, I24, I38, D63

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Gender in intergenerational educational persistence across time and place

2015

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“…Given the influence of prevailing norms from countries of origin (Norris and Inglehart 2012) and the strong intergenerational persistence of gender role attitudes (Bisin and Verdier 2000;Farré and Vella 2013), women from certain ethnic groups may have more (and others less) traditional attitudes regarding the gendered division of labour, influencing their preferences for domestic and childrearing specialisation. Going beyond previous research, we test whether more traditional women are not only less likely to enter but also more likely to exit the labour market compared to women with egalitarian gender role attitudes but otherwise similar characteristics, thereby aligning their behaviour with their preferences (cf.…”

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Labour market entries and exits of women from different origin countries in the UK

Khoudja

Platt

2018

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In the context of increasing women's labour force participation (LFP) across Western countries, there remain large differences in LFP for women of different ethnic origins.While existing research has demonstrated that part of these differences can be attributed to compositional differences (age, qualifications, family context etc.) and to differences in gender role attitudes and religiosity, residual 'ethnic effects' typically remain. Further insight into the drivers of such differences has the potential to inform us about factors shaping women's LFP more widely. In this paper we exploit a largescale longitudinal study of the UK to investigate ethnic differences in both LFP entry and exit probabilities. We examine how far we can account for overall ethnic differences in LFP entry and exit, taking account of individual characteristics, gender role attitudes and religiosity, and the contribution of relevant life-course events. We find that, adjusting for all these factors, Indian and Caribbean women do not differ from White majority women in their labour force entry and exit probabilities but that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women are less likely to enter and more likely to exit the labour market, while Black African women have higher entry rates. We also find that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women's labour market entries and exits are less sensitive to partnership and child-bearing events than other women's.

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“…The main assumption is that grandparents who made the same educational and employment choices have similar unobservable characteristics. 11 See, for instance, Farre and Vella (2013). may be partly countervailed by the positive effect produced by the latter's provision of informal childcare.…”

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Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: pension reform evidence from Italy

2017

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In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental childcare availability in the labor force participation of women with children under 15. Our analysis shows that, among the women studied, those whose own mothers are retirement eligible have a 11% higher probability of being in the labor force than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension eligibility of maternal grandfathers and paternal grandparents, however, has no significant effect on the women's labor force participation. We also demonstrate that the eligibility of maternal grandmothers mainly captures the effect of their availability for childcare. Hence, pension reforms, by potentially robbing households of an J Popul Econ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0683-7

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labour Force Participation

Cited by 305 publications

References 46 publications

Gender in intergenerational educational persistence across time and place

Gender in intergenerational educational persistence across time and place

Labour market entries and exits of women from different origin countries in the UK

Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: pension reform evidence from Italy

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