Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh
This paper studies foreign direct investment spillovers on the gender-related labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm data set of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. The paper looks at the female employm...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/932161595873019233/Gender-Empowerment-Supply-Chain-Linkages-and-Foreign-Direct-Investment-Evidence-on-Bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34258 |
| Summary: | This paper studies foreign direct
investment spillovers on the gender-related labor market
practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm
data set of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors.
The paper looks at the female employment of domestic firms
that are directly and indirectly related to foreign direct
investment firms through supply chain linkages. These
domestic firms are either the local suppliers or customers
of foreign direct investment firms, or they share local
suppliers and customers with foreign direct investment
firms. The estimates show that domestic firms related to
foreign direct investment firms have significantly more
female administrative workers, but not necessarily female
non-administrative workers, due to the former participating
in more firm-to-firm interactions. |
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