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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

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  • Jose Tavares

    (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

  • Tiago Cavalcanti

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

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output per capita in the long-run.

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  • Jose Tavares & Tiago Cavalcanti, 2008. "The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate," 2008 Meeting Papers 684, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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