Closing the gender gaps in economic opportunities is crucial for boosting economic growth and the empowerment of women …. In this paper, we study how foreign firms contribute in reducing gender disparities in the labour market by transferring … the gender norms of their country of origin to the affiliates in the host countries. We use cross sectional data on …

In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences in that relationship. Using the Dutch Time Use Surveys for the years 2000 and 2005 …

Gender equality was one of the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United …, for good or ill, each country's progress toward gender equality. Using two well-known gender inequality indices, we … examine cross-country differences in gender equality since 2000. Our empirical work suggests that large gender inequalities …

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country … show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in the foreign …-owned firms have considerably higher levels of gender segregation, and because the OLS estimates of the adjusted gender wage gaps …

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. The results suggest that gender norms of the home country matter-the gender …

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country … show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in the foreign …-owned firms have considerably higher levels of gender segregation, and because the OLS estimates of the adjusted gender wage gaps …

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. The results suggest that gender norms of the home country matter-the gender …