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- On the gender gap in labour market: Evidence of European Union countriesPublication . Pinheiro, Ana Raquel Tavares; Fuinhas, José Alberto Serra Ferreira RodriguesEconomic growth can be influenced by positive and negative externalities. In this study is analysed the relationship between gender inequality in the labour market and economic growth, using the European Union countries with annual data for the time span from 2000 to 2012. This research enriches the current literature by using. In the econometric approach, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model. Such methodology allows the appraising of short and long-run relationships separately. To measure the influence of the labour force of men and women in the economic growth, two regressions are performed, the first model analyses the height of Labour Force of men in the economy, the second model analyses the women. To analyse the gender inequality a third model is estimated, using the difference of the labour force and education of both genders confronted with economic growth. In short, the main findings indicate that gender gap constricts the economic growth.