Do Information and Communication Technologies Empower Female Workers? Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam

Natalie Chun and Heiwai Tang

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Abstract: This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadband Internet sector across provinces from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to identify the causal impacts of ICT, it finds evidence from the country’s comprehensive enterprise survey data that firms’ adoption of broadband Internet and other related ICT increased their relative demand for female and college-educated workers. The effect of ICT on firms’ female employment is particularly strong among the college-educated workers, and is stronger in industries that are more dependent on highly manual and physical tasks.

Keywords: eSS; gender inequality; ICT; information technology; infrastructure; wage inequality; information and communication technologies (ICT); female and skilled workers; broadbank internet sector; source of exogenous; variation; enterprise survey data; college-educated workers; industry; manual; physical task. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05
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