in addition wage gaps widened and unemployment fell indicating that opportunities for entering the workforce and for obtaining employment increased but only in the case of parttime work thus the results in terms of the feminization of the workforce are positive both for women entering the labour market and for economic growth but entry and employment conditions may not be favourable for women and widening gaps and shrinking average wages could impact growth in the short run foir a detailed explanation of the justification for using this model see martin table gives the results for the variables of interest when pooled ordinary least squares and intragroup fixed effect estimator regressions were run the other variables are given in the detailed model set out in annex a the arellanobond test for autocorrelation does not rule out the null hypothesis of the absence of this phenomenon for the second order difference equations which justifies the use of moment instruments