Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship
Using World Bank Enterprise Survey data around the world, this paper examines how foreign direct investment is associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other factors such...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404861576511949229/Foreign-Direct-Investment-and-Female-Entrepreneurship http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33052 |
| Summary: | Using World Bank Enterprise Survey data
around the world, this paper examines how foreign direct
investment is associated with female entrepreneurship (that
is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by
women), along with other factors such as business
environment and female empowerment, and their interactions
with foreign direct investment. Female entrepreneurship
rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry
barriers for women, women's better access to finance,
higher female labor force participation, and women's
better education. The positive association of foreign direct
investment inflow and female entrepreneurship is stronger
for firms in the service sectors and small firms. The
horizontal competition effects of intra-industry foreign
direct investment for female entrepreneurship are reduced
when women face lower entry barriers for starting a business
and have a higher labor force participation rate, and the
effects do not depend on women's access to finance or
their level of education. |
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