The present dissertation aims to describe three essays related to labor market institutions, growth and gender … determinant for womens welfare. Essay 3 tests the prevailing theme of gender inequality related to test score performance. In some … aim is to look for the role of gender itself and other environmental factors in impacting students performance at the end …

gender wage gap, decisions to invest in skills, the composition of employment and unemployment, and long-run growth. The … analysis uses a gender-based overlapping generations model with labor market rigidities. Gender bias in the workplace varies … aimed at mitigating gender bias in the workplace can promote growth and be significantly magnified through a stronger …

Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be … discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any … evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality is …