Labor Market Attitudes and Experienced Political Institutions

Troiano, Ugo A. (2018): Labor Market Attitudes and Experienced Political Institutions.

Abstract

In this paper I first present a novel fact: women who have experienced democratic institutions during their adolescence are more likely to participate in the labor market, keeping constant the country, age and many other confounding factors. I then present evidence suggesting that discriminatory attitudes may be a channel for such a finding. Other explanations receive less support from the data.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: gender economics, institutions, democratization, discrimination, labor supply.
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J7 - Labor Discrimination > J71 - Discrimination

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