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Journal Article
What firm characteristics determine women ' s employment in manufacturing? Evidence from Bangladesh
2016
Overview
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the principal determinants of women’s employment in the manufacturing sector of Bangladesh using a firm-level panel data from the World Bank’s “Enterprise Survey” for the years 2007, 2011 and 2013. The paper sheds light on the demand-side factors, mainly firm-level characteristics, which also influence this decision.
Design/methodology/approach
– The authors estimate a fractional logit model to model a dependent variable that is limited by zero from below and one from above.
Findings
– The results indicate that firm size, whether medium or large, and firms’ export-oriented activities, have an important impact on women’s employment in the manufacturing sector in Bangladesh. Moreover, the authors find that women are significantly more likely to work in unskilled-labour-intensive industries within the manufacturing sector.
Research limitations/implications
– The research is limited to Bangladesh; however, much of the evidence presented here has implications that are relevant to policymakers in other developing countries.
Practical implications
– The study identifies factors that affect female employment, that is, where the main constraints to increase female labour force participation. The study focuses on the demand-side factors, which has been somewhat neglected in recent years. As such, it has practical policy implications.
Social implications
– Focusing on female employment in Bangladesh also sheds light on the nexus between labour market opportunities and social change within a country that is characterised by extreme patriarchy, which has wide-reaching implications.
Originality/value
– This is an original and comprehensive paper by the authors.
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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