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Does culture affect the division of paid and unpaid labor in Switzerland
| Resumo: | This work project aims at examining the cultural differences in time-use between linguist icregions in Switzerland using a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design. It identifies and analyzes within-country time allocation disparities between Latin-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey. The proposed RDD methodology selects a few observations close to the language border, the "Röstigraben", where local randomization is a reasonable assumption. The findings point to a language effect on the labour market outcomes of mothers and fathers. In 2020, the analysis shows that mothers exposed to Germanic culture work 19 hours per week less overall than French- and Italian-speaking mothers. By the decomposition of the time allocation between market and domestic work, Iidentify that this effect is mainly driven by market work. German-speaking fathers dedicate 7.5hours more to paid labour. Comparing with the conventional inference approach that relies on the continuity assumption, I find that the randomization-based RD treatment effect reported is quite stable and robust to the estimation method used. |
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| Autores principais: | Bem, Marta Cardoso de |
| Assunto: | Culture Labor economics Gender |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This work project aims at examining the cultural differences in time-use between linguist icregions in Switzerland using a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design. It identifies and analyzes within-country time allocation disparities between Latin-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey. The proposed RDD methodology selects a few observations close to the language border, the "Röstigraben", where local randomization is a reasonable assumption. The findings point to a language effect on the labour market outcomes of mothers and fathers. In 2020, the analysis shows that mothers exposed to Germanic culture work 19 hours per week less overall than French- and Italian-speaking mothers. By the decomposition of the time allocation between market and domestic work, Iidentify that this effect is mainly driven by market work. German-speaking fathers dedicate 7.5hours more to paid labour. Comparing with the conventional inference approach that relies on the continuity assumption, I find that the randomization-based RD treatment effect reported is quite stable and robust to the estimation method used. |
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