Pajaron, Marjorie C.Digay, Robert BozSaulo, Christopher Miguel2024-10-082024-10-082015-06https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/668This paper examines the impact of the gender inequality in the labor force participation rate to the economic growth of each region in the Philippines from 2002- 2013. Backed up by neoclassical growth theory that accumulating assets including human capital can lead to economic growth, restricting the women an access to labor force and in education as well, reduces the amount of available talent or capital that the economy can use, which may impede economic growth. Using panel data, we used simple OLS regression to see the effect of labor force participation gap and wage gap to economic growth measured by gross regional domestic product and regional tax revenue collection. We further improved the model by controlling for fixed and random effects. GRDP and Tax revenue collection per region decreases by 0.21 and 0.9 percentage points respectively for every 1% increase in labor force gap. Wage gap has a weaker impact on economic growth compared to labor force gap. Using 2SLS, we also find out that education gap in the primary level is a weak instrument for labor force participation gap and wage gap. We then dissected the labor force gap into nine sectors and observe its effect on economic growth.enGenderLabor Force Participation RateEducationInstitutionsEconomic GrowthThesis