RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on strategic human capital and organization theory, with particular emphasis on the sociology of labor markets, career mobility, and inequality.
PUBLICATIONS
[1] Hermansen, A. S., Penner, A.M., Sabanci, H. et al. (2025) “Immigrant-Native Pay Gap Driven by Lack of Access to High-Paying Jobs.” Conditionally Accepted at Nature.
[2] Sabanci, H.* & Elvira, M. (2024) “The Outcomes of Cross-Category Career Moves: How Cross-Industry Mobility and Industry Prestige Jointly Impact Executive Compensation.” Academy of Management Journal, 67(3), 767-797.
[3] Godechot, O., Sabanci, H. et al. (2024) “The Great Separation: Top Earners’ Segregation at Work in High Income Countries”. American Journal of Sociology. 130(2), 439-495.
[4] Maoret, M.*, Moreira, S.*, & Sabanci, H.* (2024) “Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst Coverage, Stakeholder Attention, and Gender Differences in Executive Compensation ." Organization Studies. 45(4), 495-521.
[5] Penner, A.M., Petersen, T., Hermansen, A.S., Sabanci, H. et al. (2023) “Within-Job Gender Pay Inequality in 15 Countries”. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 184-189.
[6] Godechot, O., Neumann, N., Sabanci, H. et al. (2023) "Ups and Downs in Finance, Ups without Downs in Inequality". Socio-Economic Review, 21(3), 1601-1627.
WORKING PAPERS
[7] Sabanci, H.* & Elvira, M. “Temporary Employment, Precarity Trap in Low-paying Jobs, and Wage Inequality”. Preparing for submission.
[8] Lu, C., Sabanci, H., McClean, E, Wang, S. “Gender Mix of the Labor Queues and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from Corporate Sustainability Professionals.” Preparing for submission.
[9] Kaya-Sabanci, I., Sabanci, H., & Elvira M. "The Gendered Impact of Job Insecurity on Wage Employment-Entrepreneurship Transitions: Evidence from Spain" Preparing for submission.
* Denotes first authorship.