Does Gender Diversity Improve Technical Efficiency In Egyptian SMEs?/ هل يحسن التنوع بين الجنسين الكفاءة الفنية في الشركات الصغيرة و المتوسطة المصرية؟
This study investigates the relationship between gender diversity and technical efficiency in Egypt's Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The impact of gender diversity on SMEs performance has been widely examined; however, in Egypt, studies have often focused on profitability rather tha...
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| Materiálatiipa: | Artihkal |
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The Institute of National Planning
2025
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| Liŋkkat: | http://repository.inp.edu.eg//handle/123456789/6123 |
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| Čoahkkáigeassu: | This study investigates the relationship between gender diversity and technical efficiency in Egypt's Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The impact of gender diversity on SMEs performance has been widely examined; however, in Egypt, studies have often focused on profitability rather than technical efficiency, which is a crucial performance indicator. This study examines the gender diversity role on the technical efficiency. This study relies on applying frontier models; these types of models are rarely utilized in studies on gender diversity in Egypt. In this regard, an extensive analysis of the effect of gender diversity on technical efficiency of Egyptian SMEs in selected 10 economic sectors classified according to ISIC4. The findings of the frontier model show that SMEs capital, labor and total commodity requirements have positive effects and are statistically significant at the 5% level. Other input variables are statistically significant based on the nature of needed input per sector. While input elasticities differ among the economic sectors, the elasticities of labor input in the stochastic production functions are much higher than capital input elasticities, which means they are more dependent on labor except for industry code (23), that has capital input elasticity higher which indicates it is more dependent on capital; while in the technical efficiency equation gender diversity in the workforce is found to explain part of the improved performance. |
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