Do gender norms travel within corporations? The impact of foreign subsidiaries on the home country's gender wage gap

Daniel Halvarsson; Olga Lark; Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall; Priit Vahter; Josefin Videnord

doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2205093

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Do gender norms travel within corporations? The impact of foreign subsidiaries on the home country's gender wage gap

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Do gender norms travel within corporations? The impact of foreign subsidiaries on the home country's gender wage gap

Daniel Halvarsson, Olga Lark, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, Priit Vahter and Josefin Videnord

Applied Economics Letters, Vol.31(17), pp.1661-1665

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2205093

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Gender wage gap

internationalization

subsidiary firms

wages

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In this note we study how the share of workers in a corporation located in a high gender wage gap country impacts the wage gap in their home country operations. Our findings support the hypothesis that firms with strong intra-firm linkages to a high gender wage gap country also display a relatively large gender wage gap at home.

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Title: Do gender norms travel within corporations? The impact of foreign subsidiaries on the home country's gender wage gap
Creators: Daniel Halvarsson - Ratio Institute
Olga Lark - Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall - Stockholm School of Economics, European Institute of Japanese Studies
Priit Vahter - University of Tartu
Josefin Videnord - Uppsala Universitet
Publication Details: Applied Economics Letters, Vol.31(17), pp.1661-1665
Publisher: Routledge
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Academic Unit: European Institute of Japanese Studies
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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