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The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education and Employment on Economic (2003)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Klasen, Stephan Lamanna, Francesca |
| Organization | World Bank Group |
| Description | Growth in the Middle East and North Africa’, background paper for Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, World Bank: Washington DC Using 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 most recent data and investigating a long 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 significantly reduce economic growth. The combined ‘costs’ of education and employment gaps in 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. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Female Employment Recent Data Gender Gap East Asia North Africa Previous Study Middle East Education Gap Panel Regression South Asia Amount Employment Appear Economic Growth Panel Data Gender Inequality Percentage Point Difference Long Time Period South Asia Employment Gap Labor Force Participation Economic Growth Difference Combined Cost Extent Gender Gap |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
