Gender Inequality and Economic Growth : Evidence from Industry-Level Data /

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with typically hi...

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Autor Principal: Bertay, Ata Can
Outros autores: Dordevic, Ljubica, Sever, Can
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/119
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF