This seminar will explore relationships between international economic activities and gender wage gaps (GWGs) using linked employer-employee data for Japan. We find evidence that exporting and multinational activities are associated with reduced GWGs. Domestic-owned firms that do not engage in exporting or investing abroad (i.e. domestic-only firms) report the largest GWG, followed by Japanese-owned multinational enterprises (JMNE), then by locally-owned exporters that do not invest abroad and finally by foreign-owned multinational enterprises (FMNE).

Theresa Greaney is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai`i, Department of Economics. Prior she worked at Syracuse University as an Assistant Professor, and has worked in Japan and in Washington, D.C. as a teacher and researcher.

 This event is hosted by the Australia-Japan Research Centre