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

Table 7 Reservation wage differentials across educational levels (baseline sample)

	[1]	[2]	[3]	[4]
	No formal education	Compulsory school	Secondary education	Tertiary education
Percentage difference with respect to the CEEC group:
Central or Southern America	0.054	0.042***	0.022**	-0.002
Central or Southern America	(0.038)	(0.014)	(0.009)	(0.015)
Near East and North Africa	-0.021	-0.026*	-0.082***	-0.074***
Near East and North Africa	(0.027)	(0.013)	(0.010)	(0.016)
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.052*	0.071***	0.040***	-0.075***
Sub-Saharan Africa	(0.029)	(0.014)	(0.011)	(0.020)
East Asia	-0.040	-0.001	0.026**	0.011
East Asia	(0.042)	(0.014)	(0.012)	(0.015)
Central Asia	-0.039	-0.102***	-0.116***	-0.137***
Central Asia	(0.033)	(0.018)	(0.017)	(0.033)
No. Obs.	964	3702	4273	1520

Source: Authors’ calculations on ISMU dataset.
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.