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

Daniel Halvarsson (), Olga Lark (), Patrik Tingvall (), Priit Vather () and Josefin Videnord ()
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Daniel Halvarsson: The Ratio Institute, Postal: The Ratio Institute, P.O. Box 5095, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden, https://ratio.se/medarbetare/daniel-halvarsson/
Olga Lark: Lund University, Postal: The Ratio Institute, P.O. Box 5095, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden
Patrik Tingvall: Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: The Ratio Institute, P.O. Box 5095, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden, https://www.hhs.se/sv/persons/g/gustavsson-tingvall-patrik/
Priit Vather: Estonian Research Information System, Postal: The Ratio Institute, P.O. Box 5095, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden, https://www.etis.ee/CV/Priit_Vahter/eng?lang=ENG
Josefin Videnord: Uppsala University, Postal: The Ratio Institute, P.O. Box 5095, SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden, https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N17-1319
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Priit Vahter

No 360, Ratio Working Papers from The Ratio Institute

Abstract: In this note, we provide evidence that gender norms can be transferred within firms and across borders by means of foreign direct investment. Using microdata from both Sweden and Estonia, two countries with vastly different levels of gender inequality, we find that firms in Sweden with strong intra-firm linkages to Estonia display a relatively large gender wage gap at home.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; FDI; Subsidiary firms; Internationalization; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F21 F23 F66 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2022-08-31
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