Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh

Fernandes, Ana M. ; Kee, Hiau Looi

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT;    FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION;    GENDER;    SUPPLY CHAIN;    LABOR MARKET;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-9340
RP-ID  :  WPS9340

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper studies foreign directinvestment spillovers on the gender-related labor marketpractices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firmdata set of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors.The paper looks at the female employment of domestic firmsthat are directly and indirectly related to foreign directinvestment firms through supply chain linkages. Thesedomestic firms are either the local suppliers or customersof foreign direct investment firms, or they share localsuppliers and customers with foreign direct investmentfirms. The estimates show that domestic firms related toforeign direct investment firms have significantly morefemale administrative workers, but not necessarily femalenon-administrative workers, due to the former participatingin more firm-to-firm interactions.