Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … supporting aggregate demand and improving gender gaps …

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 … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …

to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i …) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all gender gaps necessarily reflect gender inequality as … some gender gaps are not driven by the lack of equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities bywomen and girls, and this …

Gender gaps in womens' economic opportunities-labor market and entrepreneurship-have remained high inIndia. Lack of … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that anincrease in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in … higher female entrepreneurship andemployment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender …

set of individual characteristics (e.g., education, age, literacy and numeracy skills). Our results indicate that female …

years of education of the working age population increased 27 percent for females and 13 percent for males, reducing gender … gaps in education. In this paper, we quantitatively investigate the impact of this increase in education on female … life-cycle. Our main findings are: (i) the improvement in years of education can explain up to 44 percent of the observed …