Authors
Jiajia Gu, Lisa L Kolovich, Jorge Mondragon, Monique Newiak, Michael Herrmann
- Format
- Paper
- Frequency
- occasional
- ISBN
- 9798400277788
- ISSN
- 3005-4591
- Pages
- 39
- Published in
- United States of America
- Series
- Gender Notes No. 2024/002
- StockNumber
- GNSEA2024002
Table of Contents
- Promoting Gender Equality_Front Cover 1
- Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges_FINAL2 2
- Promoting Gender Equality and Tackling Demographic Challenges 5
- Motivation 5
- Stylized Facts: Diverging Demographic Trends 6
- Addressing Demographic Challenges: The Gains from Gender Equality 9
- Economic Benefits of Increasing Female Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies 9
- Gains from Narrowing the Gender Gap in Education in LIDCs 13
- Policy Solutions: Accounting for Time and Resource Constraints 16
- General Considerations 16
- Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets: Facilitating Work–Life Choices 19
- LIDCs: Boosting Human Capital in High-Population-Growth Countries 27
- Conclusion 31
- Figure 1. Dependency Ratios in Advanced Economies, Emerging Markets, and Low-Income and Developing Economies, 1960–2022 8
- Figure 2. Labor Force Participation Rate by Gender and Country Group, 2000–2022 9
- Figure 3. Change in GDP: Scenarios of Population Declines and Increased Female Labor Force Participation 11
- Figure 4. Scenarios of Population Declines and Increased Female Labor Force Participation, Select Countries 12
- (Percentage change in GDP) 12
- Box 1. Estimating the Impact of Gender Gaps in Labor Force Participation on GDP under Different Demographic Trends 13
- Figure 5. Economic Development and Human Capital, 2020 14
- Figure 6. Share of Population without Education, Select Countries, by Gender and Wealth Quintile 14
- Figure 7. (Adolescent) Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Maternal Death 15
- Figure 8. Time Use Gap (Male-Female) by Country by Activity, Minutes per Day 17
- Figure 9. Policies and Household Constraints 18
- Figure 10. Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility, 2020 19
- Figure 11. Female Labor Force Participation, Childcare, and Maternity Leave 21
- Box 2. Addressing Gender Gaps in the Labor Market in Korea 23
- Box 3. Expanding Choices: Gender-Responsive Family Policies for the Private Sector in the Western Balkans and Moldova 24
- Table 1. Reducing the Need for Work–Life Trade-offs—Policies That Facilitate Choices 25
- Table 1. Reducing the Need for Work–Life Trade-offs—Policies That Facilitate Choices (concluded) 26
- Figure 12. Female Education, Electricity, Access to Water, and Sanitation 27
- Figure 13. EMs and LIDCs: Incidence of Child Marriage 29
- Annex 1. Population Dynamics 32
- Annex 2. Framework to Assess the Macroeconomic Gains from Education 33
- References 34