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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434852
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Catalyzing gender equality : foreign MNC subsidiaries as agents of change in mitigating wage discrimination against women
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2023
Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423719
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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms
Magda, Iga; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2019
We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027692
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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Zhu, Yu - 2014
their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenerational correlations … in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children … children's housework time. Our results contribute to the field of intergenerational mobility of behaviors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441698
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Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms
Magda, Iga - 2019
We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867142
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The Contribution of Multinationals to Wage Inequality : Foreign Ownership and the Gender Pay Gap
Vahter, Priit - 2018
While an abundance of studies exists documenting the significant wage premium of multinationals (MNE) and the effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) on wage inequality, much less is still known about how foreign ownership affects the gender wage gap of employees in firms. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930995
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Foreign ownership and transferring of gender norms
Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2022
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270276
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Unraveling the MNE wage premium
van der Straaten, Khadija; Pisani, Niccolò; Kolk, Ans - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091567
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Foreign ownership and transferring of gender norms
Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2022
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013277456