Whereas the field of International Business has extensively studied MNEs’ generic (positive) impact on host economies, but rarely on employee wages, economics research has only shown an overall MNE wage premium. We ‘unravel’ this premium, considering multiple levels of analysis and...

Corporate social responsibility has been increasingly regarded as an important firm non-market strategy that impact the overall firm's performance and how its viewed by the society, leading to an intensified research focusing on its antecedents, processes, and outcomes. As the most influential...

We find that within-firm base pay inequality is negatively associated with employee morale. Increases in hourly wages improve morale even among high-salaried employees. In contrast, total pay inequality is positively associated with morale. Low base pay (high total pay) inequality corresponds...

We study the 2017 UK rule requiring firms that employ more than 250 workers to publicly disclose gender pay gap data. We focus on two questions of interest to regulators and socially conscious investors: (i) does gender pay equity improve after mandatory disclosure? and (ii) is gender pay equity...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, provides an in-depth analysis of the policy and legal state-of the-art concerning gender pay discrimination in the European Union. To...

I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and performance. I next create...

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...

The study aims at identifying the influence of interior pay gap between senior executives and ordinary employees on the organization's future performance for listed Chinese firms. In addition, two other moderator variables have been included in the study referring management power as the...

We investigate the relationship of CEOs' political preferences (as reflected in their political contributions) with the prevalence and compensation of women in leadership positions at U.S. public companies. We find that CEOs who favor the Democratic Party (“Democratic CEOs”) are associated...

Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11...