A Gender Equality Index for the Italian Regions

Amici, Monica; Stefani, Maria Lucia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2303704

Cited by 11 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These indexes provide a synthetic indicator of the degree of gender inequality in a given country and are constructed based on multiple key dimensions, including health outcomes for females, degree of female empowerment, and labour market outcomes of women. 4 We collect the Gender Equality Indexes (GEIs) in the regions of destination from Amici and Stefani (2013), at the Bank of Italy. We will use the GEIs to explore how gender differences are influenced by the degree of gender inequality in the destination of the immigrant entrepreneurs (see Sections 4 and 5).…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter?

Colombelli

Grinza

Meliciani³

et al. 2021

Economic Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examine whether the existing stock of immigrant firms induces more new firms of the same nationality in the same sector and province. We carry out the analysis by using Italian administrative data on the population of individual firms observed over the time window 2002-2013. We find support for a strong attractiveness (pulling) effect, which significantly differs by gender, with female immigrant entrepreneurs showing a lower reactiveness to the existing stock of firms compared to their male counterparts. Also, we find that exposure to gender inequality matters for the degree of equality of the pulling effect between genders. Only for countries of origin with unequal gender opportunities do female immigrants show a lower pulling effect than their male peers. No difference in the effect between men and women is, instead, found with reference to the degree of gender inequality in the destination.

show abstract

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter?

Colombelli

Grinza

Meliciani³

et al. 2021

Economic Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We have gathered information on variables that might a¤ect students'accumulation of knowledge at the regional level as well as data on opinions and attitudes toward gender roles from both the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) and the Survey on Discriminations by Gender, Sexual Orientation and Ethnic Origin. We also used data from the Bank of Italy, in particular the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), and the Gender Equality Index developed by Amici and Stefani (2013). We gathered information from the Excelsior Survey, developed by the Excelsior Information System, which is one of Italy's main sources of information on labor market forecasts.…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Stereotypes in Financial Literacy: Evidence from PISA

Bottazzi¹,

Lusardi²

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examine gender differences in financial literacy among high school students in Italy using data from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Gender differences in financial literacy are large among the young in Italy. They are present in all regions and are particularly severe in the South and the Islands. Combining the rich PISA data with a variety of other indicators, we provide a thorough analysis of the potential determinants of the gender gap in financial literacy. We find that parental background, in particular the role of mothers, matters for the financial knowledge of girls. Moreover, we show that the social and cultural environment in which girls and boys live plays a crucial role in explaining gender differences. We also show that history matters: Medieval commercial hubs and the nuclear family structure created conditions favorable to the transformation of the role of women in society, and shaped gender differences in financial literacy as well.

show abstract

“…GIIs, in particular, are indexes developed by the UNDP to measure the overall level of gender inequality in each country of the world. 4 We finally recover Gender Equality Indexes (GEIs) in the regions of destination (see Section 5) from the study by Amici and Stefani (2013) at the Bank of Italy. GEIs provide synthetic indexes on the overall level of gender inequality in each of the 20 Italian administrative regions and are constructed based on the methodology behind the UNDP's GIIs.…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All regressions include the same set of controls as Column (7) of Table2. GEIs are provided byAmici and Stefani (2013) and refer to year 2010. Such indexes are only available for year 2010 and are constructed based on the methodology behind the UNDP's GIIs.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Pulling Effects in Migrant Entrepreneurship:Does Gender Matter?

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, we examine whether the existing stock of migrant firms induces more new firms of the same co-ethnic group in the same sector and province. We do so by analyzing the number of new firms created each year by country of origin, sector, and province, drawing on administrative data of the population of individual firms observed over the period 2002-2013. We find support for a strong attractiveness (pulling) effect. We also find that this effect significantly differs by gender: female migrant entrepreneurs show lower reactiveness to the existing stock of firms compared to their male counterparts. We finally show that such gender differences are stronger for migrants coming from more gender-unequal countries. On the contrary, the degree of gender inequality in the region of destination does not matter.

show abstract

A Gender Equality Index for the Italian Regions

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter?

Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter?

Stereotypes in Financial Literacy: Evidence from PISA

Pulling Effects in Migrant Entrepreneurship:Does Gender Matter?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About