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  "title": "A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, November 8, 2019",
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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.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011.\n- 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.\n- The paper quantitatively investigates the impact of this increase in education on female employment in Senegal using an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their life-cycle.\n- Main findings:\n  - The improvement in years of education can explain up to 44 percent of the observed increased in female-to-male employment ratio.\n  - The remainder of the increase can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women in the labor market."
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      "heading": "Methods and Scope",
      "content": "- Model: Overlapping generations model capturing life-cycle barriers faced by women.\n- Geographic focus: Senegal.\n- Themes and topics covered: Education, Gender, Gender diversity, Labor, Labor markets, Women.\n- Keywords included in the source: 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.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 3. Changes in Households’ Per Capita Income, by Decile of Income Distribution\n  - 3. Changes in Households’ Per Capita Income, by Decile of Income Distribution (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 3. Changes in Households’ Per Capita Income, by Decile of Income Distribution (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2019/11/08/a-quantitative-analysis-of-female-employment-in-senegal-48716"
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    "Authors: Vivian Malta, Angelica Martinez, Marina Mendes Tavares",
    "Published: November 8, 2019",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513516202.001",
    "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.",
    "The paper quantitatively investigates the impact of this increase in education on female employment in Senegal using an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their life-cycle.",
    "Main findings:",
    "Model: Overlapping generations model capturing life-cycle barriers faced by women.",
    "Geographic focus: Senegal.",
    "Themes and topics covered: Education, Gender, Gender diversity, Labor, Labor markets, Women.",
    "Keywords included in the source: 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.",
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