Determinants of Female Employment in Egyptian Firms

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Determinants of Female Employment in Egyptian Firms. / Abdelgouad, Ahmed Fayez; Pfeifer, Christian.
in: The Empirical Economics Letters, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 12, 2014, S. 1267-1275.

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title = "Determinants of Female Employment in Egyptian Firms",
abstract = "We use the World Bank enterprise survey for the Egyptian manufacturingsector in order to estimate pooled and random effects Probit and Tobit regressions for the probability that a firm employs any female workers and for the female employment share. Our main findings suggest that female employment at the firm-level is more likely and more intense if the firm is led by a top manager with a university degree and with foreign experience in management jobs, if the firm is an exporter with more export experience, and if the firm does not employ unionized workers.",
keywords = "Economics, Gender and Diversity",
author = "Abdelgouad, {Ahmed Fayez} and Christian Pfeifer",
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