Examines the growth-employment-poverty reduction nexus through a gender perspective. In particular, it explores how changes in economic policies affect women's and men's employment and proposes ways of assessing the implications of these changes for poverty and gender equality

This Working Ppaer confirms that labor productivity in the European economies has continued to slow down in recent years. U.S. productivity growth has been higher than in the EU, but only since 2001. At the same time, both economies have modified previous employment performance: EU employment...