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16 Post author: Larks 08 October 2014 11:48PM

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Comment author: gwern 11 October 2014 06:18:59PM 2 points [-]

Yes, those two were anecdotes, not studies. I wouldn't be surprised in the least bit if there were studies pointing the same way, though, but I've never looked: the point is obvious enough that it doesn't really need to be argued for.

Comment author: ESRogs 12 October 2014 08:14:52PM *  2 points [-]

those two were anecdotes, not studies

Did you miss this (from the HBS link)?

"Employing women who are excluded by their own countries' labor markets is a growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide", which he co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute."

Edit: Oh, or did you mean that what you'd read before was just anecdotes?

Comment author: gwern 12 October 2014 09:10:24PM 2 points [-]

Edit: Oh, or did you mean that what you'd read before was just anecdotes?

That. http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/11-011_512c2b3a-2df5-41f9-a4ec-99af4716ba5f.pdf sounds interesting though.