Do Female Gender Role Attitudes Affect Labour Market Participation in Egypt?
研究了埃及母亲与女儿对性别角色的看法如何代际传递，以及这些看法是否影响个人劳动力市场参与，发现看法与劳动参与无显著关联，高学历女性反而更易失业。
We analyse the inter-generational relationship of attitudes towards gender roles and their impact on individuals’ labour market participations in Egypt. We find a strong correlation between mothers’ and daughters’ perceptions of gender roles. Unlike the existing literature, perceptions are not associated with the labour market status even if we control for endogeneity issues using an instrumental variable regression. Furthermore, higher-educated females are more likely to be unemployed in Egypt. These results imply that perceptions among females are not translated into their labour market behaviour and the supply-side policies alone may not be sufficient for improving young women’s employment opportunities.