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- Title
Business Advisory Services and Female Employment in an Extreme Institutional Context.
- Authors
Johan, Sofia; Valenzuela, Patricio
- Abstract
Publicly funded business advisory services face pressure to demonstrate value‐added effects among their assisted firms. Our research aims to measure the effectiveness of a business advisory programme developed in a developed country and applied in an emerging economy with a male‐dominated labour market. We also seek to determine the effects of increased professionalization resulting from advisory services. Comparing the business advisory services of a publicly funded organization with those of a matched sample, we observe an overall positive effect on job creation; however, this employment growth benefits males at the expense of females. We also find a reduction in unpaid family work and an increase in formal, full‐time employment but again, this professionalization and substitution effect mainly benefits male workers.
- Subjects
EMERGING markets; EMPLOYMENT agencies; EMPLOYEE benefits; WOMEN'S employment; FULL-time employment; LABOR market
- Publication
British Journal of Management, 2021, Vol 32, Issue 4, p1082
- ISSN
1045-3172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8551.12429