Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … 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 …

-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …

to economic growth, and employment creation? And, if that potential exists; what constrains prevent informal … entrepreneurs from reaching their full potential? The results on marginal returns to capital in Chapter 1 and on employment growth …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic … growth. The combined "costs" of education and employment gaps in the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia amount …

-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …