## A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal

_IMF Working Papers, November 8, 2019_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Vivian Malta, Angelica Martinez, Marina Mendes Tavares
- Published: November 8, 2019
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513516202.001

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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.
- 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:
  - The improvement in years of education can explain up to 44 percent of the observed increased in female-to-male employment ratio.
  - The remainder of the increase can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women in the labor market.

### Methods and Scope
- 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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- **3. Changes in Households’ Per Capita Income, by Decile of Income Distribution**
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