Scientific Background to the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

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Abstract: Women are severely underrepresented in the global labor market: around 50% of women work or actively seek work for income, compared to 80% for men. The gender differences in participation are fundamentally driven by variation in women’s participation rates – men’s participation rates are broadly constant across time and countries. The participation gaps between men and women are particularly large in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, where they sometimes exceed 50 percentage points.

Keywords: Gender in labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J70 J71 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2023-10-09
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