The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-19
研究了意大利30多岁女性在疫情冲击下如何平衡职业与家庭，发现北部有小孩的女性大量离职并退出劳动力市场，影响持久且大于男性，归因于区域社会文化因素。
We investigate the attachment to the labour market of women in their 30s, who are combining career and family choices, through their reactions to an exogenous, and potentially symmetric shock, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that in Italy a large number of women with small children, living in the North, left permanent (and temporary) employment and became inactive in 2020. Despite the short period of observation after the burst of the pandemic, the identified impacts appear large and persistent, particularly with respect to the men of the same age. We argue that this evidence is ascribable to specific regional socio-cultural factors, which foreshadow a potential long-term detrimental impact on female labour force participation.