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The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education and Employment on Economic Growth : New Evidence for a Panel of Countries

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dc.contributor.authorKlasen, Stephan
dc.contributor.authorLamanna, Francesca
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:28:58Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:28:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractUsing cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating an extended time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic growth. The combined "costs" of education and employment gaps in the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia amount respectively to 0.9-1.7 and 0.1-1.6 percentage point differences in growth compared to East Asia. Gender gaps in employment appear to have an increasing effect on economic growth differences between regions, with the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia suffering from slower growth in female employment.en
dc.identifier.citationFeminist Economics
dc.identifier.issn13545701
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4636
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectAnalysis of Education I210
dc.subjectEconomics of Gender
dc.subjectNon-labor Discrimination J160
dc.subjectLabor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure J210
dc.subjectLabor Discrimination J710
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectMeasurement of Economic Growth
dc.subjectAggregate Productivity
dc.subjectCross-Country Output Convergence O470
dc.titleThe Impact of Gender Inequality in Education and Employment on Economic Growth : New Evidence for a Panel of Countriesen
dc.title.alternativeFeminist Economicsen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1041
okr.journal.nbpages91-132
okr.language.supporteden
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