Project 1 will develop one conceptual paper on transmission channels linking growth and structural change to women’s employment, type of jobs, occupational and sectoral segregation, and pay.

What are the transmission channels from growth and structural change to women's employment and economic empowerment? How does economic growth and structural change interact with markets and formal and informal institutions at the micro, meso or macro level to produce gendered employment outcomes? This project will develop a conceptual framework and hypotheses linking economic growth, structural change, and female employment, type of jobs and pay, by drawing on insights from several fields within economics (including labour, behavioral, feminist, macro, international, and development) and other social sciences to illustrate the complexity of transmission channels. It will identify potential entry points for policy to enhance the role of economic growth and structural change for women's economic empowerment. This project will play an important role in the overall research program generating hypotheses for the other, more empirically-oriented projects. In turn, the other projects will provide feedback on the relevance of particular transmission channels.