We empirically analyzed the labor market
participation of Italian women, with special emphasis on the role of
intergenerational family links. Older relatives, on the one hand, discourage the
work participation of women by requiring care; on the other hand they may
provide household services favoring labor supply. We studied this dual impact
estimating a trivariate probit model where the three choices to be in the labor
force, to use informal help from older relatives and to care for them are
jointly determined. Our estimates show that care duties towards members of the
previous generation hinder the labor market participation of Italian women, and
that informal help received from older relatives strongly increases their
probability of being engaged in paid work. [PUBLICATION
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