Publications [#378363] of Alessandra L. Gonzalez

Journal Articles

1. González, AL, Insider's advantage: When foreign firms do not capture opportunity in the local labour market, Transnational Corporations, vol. 27 no. 3 (December, 2020), pp. 61-92 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/19)

   Abstract:
   Previous studies have argued that, relative to local firms, multinational firms may have an “outsider's advantage” in hiring women. Using a large data set of executives in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in a region with some of the lowest rates of female labour force participation in the world, I present new evidence of a setting in which foreign firms do not capture opportunity in the local labour market. I find that foreign firms, on average, are not more likely than local firms to hire female executives and are less likely to place women into top management roles. I propose that foreign firms may have fewer social networks and resources, or lack “insider's advantage”, relative to local firms for recruiting women into executive positions.