Determinants of Female Employment in Egyptian Firms

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We use the World Bank enterprise survey for the Egyptian manufacturing
sector 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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalThe Empirical Economics Letters
Volume13
Issue number12
Pages (from-to)1267-1275
Number of pages9
ISSN1681-8997
Publication statusPublished - 2014