01903cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015963 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513516202 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Malta, Vivian. A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal / Vivian Malta, Angelica Martinez, Marina Mendes Tavares. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. In this paper, we quantitatively investigate the impact of this increase in education on female employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their life-cycle. Our main findings are: (i) the improvement in years of education can explain up to 44 percent of the observed increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women in the labor market. Mode of access: Internet Martinez, Angelica. Mendes Tavares, Marina. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/241 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/241/001.2019.issue-241-en.xml IMF e-Library