Firm Survival and Gender Composition of Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Joyce Jacobsen () and Sooyoung Lee ()
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Sooyoung Lee: Department of Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

No 2024-009, Wesleyan Economics Working Papers from Wesleyan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A literature has developed in labor economics regarding employer discrimination and how it may be detrimental to firms, particularly firms operating in more competitive sectors. A second literature in international trade considers the effects of import competition and export orientation on gender employment and earnings gaps. Finally, factors affecting firm survival have been increasingly studied as more panel data have become available for firms. We unite these diverse literatures and test several pertinent hypotheses from them using a 2005-2018 panel of Vietnamese firms. We find that firms with higher proportions of female labor are more likely to survive, controlling for other firm-level and industry-level characteristics, and that exporting and foreign- owned firms have higher proportions of female labor. We also examine earnings and women-run firms to consider other dimensions of firm gendering and their effects on firm survival.

Keywords: Vietnam; gender discrimination; trade competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F16 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2024-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-gen, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-sbm, nep-sea and nep-tra
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