Does the cultural context matter?: The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply
Uunk,W.J.G.
Uunk,W.J.G.
Abstract
Despite substantial country variation in gender-role attitudes and female labor supply and theoretical arguments stressing the consequences of contextual attitudes for individual behavior, prior research did not find evidence for an effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply. In this study I reassess this finding using a powerful multilevel design on the 2008 wave of the European Values Study on 33 countries. I find a substantial positive and independent effect of a country's egalitarian gender-role attitudes on individual women's odds of labor market attachment. The original, gross effect can for one-fourth be attributed to an effect of individual gender-role attitudes and one-tenth to an institutional effect. These findings indicate that the cultural (attitude) context matters for female labor supply. Key words: gender-role attitudes, female labor supply, contextual effects, cross-national research
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2015
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female labor supply, gender-role attitudes, contextual effects, cross-national research, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Uunk, W J G 2015, 'Does the cultural context matter? The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply', European Societies, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 176-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2014.995772