Gender Gaps in the Labour Market and Economic Growth
研究缓解劳动力市场性别歧视的政策对性别差距、失业和长期增长的影响，以摩洛哥为案例，发现政策虽促进增长但可能加剧女性失业，需配合降低劳动成本和提高生产率的措施。
This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on gender gaps in the labour market, unemployment and long‐run growth. The analysis uses a gender‐based overlapping generations model with labour market rigidities. Gender bias in the workplace varies inversely with the presence of skilled women (who operate as agents of change ) in employment and has a direct impact on their bargaining power in the family. The model is calibrated for Morocco. Experiments show that although the growth effects of policies aimed at mitigating gender bias in the workplace are significant and are magnified through a stronger presence of skilled women in the labour market, a trade‐off may emerge with respect to female unemployment when they are combined with subsidies to women’s training. To mitigate this trade‐off, anti‐discrimination policies in the marketplace may need to be complemented by across‐the‐board measures aimed at reducing labour costs and raising productivity.