Deregulation aided women entering US labour force – paper

ECB paper finds opening up the credit market helped reduce the gender gap in the labour force

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A working paper published by the European Central Bank (ECB) finds banking deregulation from the 1970s onwards has significantly helped to reduce the gender gap in labour markets.

Specific to the US, Alexander Popov and Sonia Zaharia’s research explores the previously undocumented role the opening-up of local credit markets to competition from in-state and out-of-state banks played in narrowing the gender gap.

“Our results suggest that banking deregulation reduced the gender gap in labour

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