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

Table 12 Robustness check: multireligious countries

	[1]	[2]	[3]
	Activity rate	Employment rate	Reservation wages (1)
			Percentage difference with respect to the CEEC group:
Central and Eastern European Countries	79.8	69.9
Central or Southern America	84.0	71.0	0.0296
Central or Southern America	84.0	71.0	(0.0301)
Near East and North Africa	31.0	27.7	-0.482***
Near East and North Africa	31.0	27.7	(0.0470)
Sub-Saharan Africa	76.6	66.8	0.0893***
Sub-Saharan Africa	76.6	66.8	(0.0286)
East Asia	76.9	71.2	-0.0319
East Asia	76.9	71.2	(0.0303)
Central Asia	35.1	27.5	-0.495***
Central Asia	35.1	27.5	(0.0401)
No. Obs.	8,305

Source: Authors’ calculations on ISMU dataset.
(1) Percentage differences in computed reservation wages. Stars show significance levels, *** up to 1 per cent, ** between 1 per cent and 5 per cent, * between 5 per cent and 10 per cent. Mean differences are weighted according to the sample design.