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Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms

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  • Halvarsson, Daniel

    (The Ratio Institute)

  • Lark, Olga

    (Lund University)

  • Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik

    (The National Board of Trade)

Abstract

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 wage gap in foreign-owned subsidiaries appears to increase with the degree of gender inequality prevailing in the investors’ home market. This finding is identified from within job-spell variation in wages and proves robust across a series of specifications.

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  • Halvarsson, Daniel & Lark, Olga & Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik, 2022. "Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms," Working Paper Series 1433, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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    Keywords

    Foreign ownership; Gender inequality; Gender wage gap; Internationalization; Gender norms;
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    JEL classification:

    • F66 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Labor
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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