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 …

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 …

than females but religion and a lack of education are important too. The paper contributes to the literature on gender in … of female top managers by sector follows a wider pattern of gender segregation, and that national cultural attitudes are … important in the determination of the gender of the top manager. Having established the importance of cultural attitudes in …

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …