A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal

By Vivian Malta, Angelica Martinez, Marina Mendes Tavares

November 8, 2019

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Vivian Malta, Angelica Martinez, and Marina Mendes Tavares. A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period 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 employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their life-cycle. Our main findings are: (i) the improvement in years of education can explain up to 44 percent of the observed increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women in the labor market.

Subject: Education, Gender, Gender diversity, Labor, Labor markets, Women

Keywords: Development, Earnings ratio, Female-to-male employment ratio, Gender diversity, Labor Force Participation, Labor markets, Net government expenditure effect, Per capita income, Production function, Representative firm, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wage discrimination, Women, WP

Publication Details

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29
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Working Paper No. 2019/241
Stock No:

WPIEA2019241
ISBN:

9781513516202
ISSN:

1018-5941

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