The Economic Cost of Gender Gaps in Effective Labor: Africa's Missing Growth Reserve.
This study analyzes the impact of the gender gap in effective labor – defined as the combined effect of the gender gaps in labor force participation and education – on economic output per worker. The results indicate that the gender gap in effective labor has a negative effect on the economic output...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 162 - 187 |
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