In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish firms is affected by the degree of gender inequality in the home country of foreign investors....

I construct a novel measure of misogyny using Google Trends data on searches that include derogatory terms for women. I show that misogyny is an economically meaningful and statistically significant predictor of the wage gap, and use it to test the predictions of two influential labor market...

In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish firms is affected by the degree of gender inequality in the home country of foreign investors....