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 …

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the … disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform tasks sensitive to the technology specialization (software or robotics) of the …

same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … advantage in services have the lowest gender wage gap, with women earning 24% less than their male counterpart, while women in … manufacturing earned on average 40% less than male workers. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the total gender wage gap in …

In this paper, we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the … need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap …. Our key finding is that export of goods that are intensive in interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The …