A recent study published in the Strategic Management Journal finds that appointing an immigrant CEO can dramatically reduce the incidence of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) in their home countries. The research, led by Juan Bu, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at Indiana University Bloomington, highlights how a leader’s personal ties and social networks abroad can influence where—and how often—multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage in harmful practices such as environmental pollution or human rights violations.

CSI incidents vary widely by region, and past research has focused primarily on macro-level factors, such as national regulations or cultural norms, to explain these differences. This new study takes a micro-level approach, examining how individual leadership characteristics—specifically, whether a CEO is an immigrant—affect corporate behavior across countries.

If you’re under the age of 34, you may be more willing to commit insurance fraud, according to new University of Georgia research.

A paper into the gender pay gap in the UK looked at 40 years of data from the UKLH and found:

*Class matters: Women earn 25% less than men in wealthy households. The gap is only 4% in poorer households, because poor men and women are paid so little in the UK. Policies that focus on women at the top (e.g. gender quotas for executive boards) risk feeding into rising populism by pitting poor men against rich women, as they are irrelevant to poorer households

*Part-time work cuts lifetime earning potential by 30%: A history of part-time work, longterm sickness, or unpaid care work, all have the same negative impact on wages – accounting for 30% of the gender pay gap. Men face a higher penalty for part-time work

*Sex discrimination persists: Simply being a woman accounts for 43% of the gender pay gap.

Governments around the world are grappling with the challenges of environmental degradation and economic inequality. But until now, there has been no comprehensive analysis of how these two problems are interrelated, and how policies to protect the environment and reduce the rich–poor divide complement or hinder each other. The study “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” looks at this interaction with a literature analysis. It was co-authored by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and has now been published in the renowned Journal of Economic Literature.