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...
|a Gender Inequality and Economic Growth :
|b Evidence from Industry-Level Data /
|c Ata Can Bertay, Ljubica Dordevic, Can Sever.
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|a Washington, D.C. :
|b International Monetary Fund,
|c 2020.
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|a 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 higher female share in their employment relative to other industries. Specifically, we exploit within-country variation across industries to test whether those that typically employ more women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal effect of gender inequality on industry growth in value-added and labor productivity. Our findings show that gender inequality affects real economic outcomes.
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|a Dordevic, Ljubica.
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|a Sever, Can.
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|a IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
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