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Ratio Working Paper No. 354: Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms

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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, Ola & Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik, 2022. "Ratio Working Paper No. 354: Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms," Ratio Working Papers 354, The Ratio Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:ratioi:0354
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    1. Halvarsson, Daniel & Lark, Olga & Tingvall, Patrik & Vather, Priit & Videnord, Josefin, 2022. "Do gender norms travel within corporations? The impact of foreign subsidiaries on the home country gender wage gap," Ratio Working Papers 360, The Ratio Institute.
    2. Halvarsson, Daniel & Lark, Olga & Tingvall, Patrik & Videnord, Josefin, 2022. "Bargaining for Trade: When Exporting Becomes Detrimental for Female Wages," Working Paper Series 1437, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
    3. Lark, Olga & Videnord, Josefin, 2023. "Do Exporters Import Gender Inequality?," Working Papers 2023:6, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    4. Halvarsson, Daniel & Lark, Olga & Tingvall, Patrik & Videnord, Josefin, 2022. "Bargaining for Trade: When Exporting Becomes Detrimental for Female Wages," Working Papers 2022:13, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    5. Halvarsson, Daniel & Lark, Olga & Tingvall, Patrik & Videnord, Josefin, 2022. "Bargaining for Trade: When Exporting Becomes Detrimental for Female Wages," Ratio Working Papers 361, The Ratio Institute.

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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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