Skills or culture? An analysis of the decision to work by immigrant women in Italy

Table 1 Summary statistics of the main variables

	No. Obs.	Sample mean	Std. Dev.
School	11,852	10.746	4.541
Potential Experience	11,852	16.764	9.295
Years in Italy	11,989	5.734	4.610
Net monthly wage	9,988	606.874	1214.336
Children below 18yrs	12,015	0.696	0.990
Children above 18yrs	12,015	0.527	1.566
Married	12,015	0.569	0.495
Family network	4,851	0.358	0.479
Family reunification visa	9,914	0.226	0.441
Irregular	12,015	0.117	0.321
	No. Obs.	Percentages
Religions:
Catholic	12,015	38.33
Muslim	12,015	30.89
Other Christians	12,015	18.46
Buddhists	12,015	3.21
Hindu	12,015	1.35
Other	12,015	2.24
No creed	12,015	5.52
Groups of countries of origin:
Central and Eastern European Countries	12,015	28.56
Central or Southern America	12,015	19.55
Near East and North Africa	12,015	18.29
Sub-Saharan Africa	12,015	15.59
East Asia	12,015	12.44
Central Asia	12,015	5.57