期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This
paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare,
food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use
Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic
minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes and influencing
time spent for "traditional" female activities is of particular interest. The
paper finds that white females in the UK have a higher probability to
participate in the labor force than non-white females. Non-white females spend
more time for religious activities and, to some extent, for food management than
white females, while there are no ethnic differences for time spent on
childcare. The ethnicity effect is also heterogenous across different
socio-economic groups. Hence, cultural differences across ethnicities are
significant, and do affect work behavior.
