02559cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016627 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 20.00 USD 9781513562513 2616-5333 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Christiansen, Lone Engbo. Unlocking Female Employment Potential in Europe : Drivers and Benefits / Lone Engbo Christiansen, Huidan Lin, Joana Pereira, Petia Topalova. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (41 pages) Departmental 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 With an aging population and declining productivity growth, Europe faces serious challenges to raising its output growth. Adding to these challenges are the various gender gaps in the labor market. Despite significant progress in recent decades, there are still fewer women than men participating in Europe's labor market, and women are more likely to work part time. Furthermore, a smaller share of women reaches the top rungs of the corporate ladder. Could greater gender equality in the labor market help mitigate the slowdown in Europe's growth potential? Against this backdrop, this paper investigates the drivers of female labor force participation in Europe as well as what effects greater gender diversity in senior corporate positions might have for Europe's economic performance. Reexamining the factors driving women's labor force participation is particularly important because in many European countries the process of closing the gender gap has stalled despite greater gender equality in human capital investment, declining birth rates, changing social norms, and equal legal access to employment opportunities. Investigating whether firm performance could be improved if women held a greater share of senior positions is also essential given that the empirical evidence from past research into this question has been inconclusive. Mode of access: Internet Lin, Huidan. Pereira, Joana. Topalova, Petia. Departmental Papers; Departmental Paper ; No. 2016/002 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/087/2016/002/087.2016.issue-002-en.xml IMF e-Library