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 …

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 …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment. …

We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization …

employment trajectories of female faculty. The Athena SWAN Charter is a gender equality initiative that formally recognises good … (STEMM) through an accreditation process. We find that the gender wage gap closes after Athena SWAN accreditation. However …

Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet … for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours than women on average. However, while the wage returns to hours …. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these facts. We show that, under some assumptions, gender differences …

characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To … between-firm (sorting) and within-firm heterogeneity (bargaining) on the gender wage gap. We use a two-way fixed effect wage … model, in which firm fixed effects differ between male and female employees to account for within-firm gender differences in …