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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Industry-Level Data
Ata Can Bertay
Ljubica Dordevic
Can Sever
出版
International Monetary Fund
, 2020-07-03
主題
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Women's Studies
Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics
ISBN
1513546279
9781513546278
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=D7EaEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.