TY - BOOK ID - 136589300 TI - Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship AU - Fang, Sheng. AU - Shamseldin, Heba M.M. AU - Xu, L. Colin. PY - 2019 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to Finance KW - Business Environment KW - Education Attainment KW - Enterprise Development and Reform KW - Enterprise Surveys KW - Female Entrepreneurs KW - Female Labor Force Participation KW - Foreign Direct Investment KW - Gender KW - Gender and Economics KW - Gender and Poverty KW - Labor Markets KW - Private Sector Development KW - Private Sector Economics KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Women's Empowerment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136589300 AB - Using World Bank Enterprise Survey data around the world, this paper examines how foreign direct investment is associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other factors such as business environment and female empowerment, and their interactions with foreign direct investment. Female entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher female labor force participation, and women's better education. The positive association of foreign direct investment inflow and female entrepreneurship is stronger for firms in the service sectors and small firms. The horizontal competition effects of intra-industry foreign direct investment for female entrepreneurship are reduced when women face lower entry barriers for starting a business and have a higher labor force participation rate, and the effects do not depend on women's access to finance or their level of education. ER -