Research

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] Sabanci, H.* & Elvira, M. (2024) “The Outcomes of Cross-Category Career Moves: How Cross-Industry Mobility and Industry Prestige Jointly Impact Executive Compensation.Forthcoming at Academy of Management Journal

[2] Godechot, O., Sabanci, H. et al. (2024) “The Great Separation: Top Earners’ Segregation at Work in High Income Countries”. Forthcoming at American Journal of Sociology.

[3] Maoret, M.*, Moreira, S.*, & Sabanci, H.* (2024) “Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst Coverage, Stakeholder Attention, and Gender Differences in Executive Compensation ." Forthcoming at Organization Studies.

[4] 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.

[5] 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. 

PAPERS UNDER REVISE & RESUBMIT

[6] Hermansen, A. S., Penner, A.M., Sabanci, H. et al. “Immigrant-Native Pay Gap Driven by Lack of Access to High-Paying Jobs.” Revise & Resubmit at Nature.

WORKING PAPERS

[7] Sabanci, H.* & Elvira, M. “Temporary Employment, Precarity Trap in Low-paying Jobs, and Wage Inequality”. Preparing for submission.

[8] Neumann, N., Godechot, O., Sabanci, H. et al. “A Study on Financialization and Income Inequality” (title disguised). Preparing for submission.

WORK IN PROGRESS

[9] Lu, C., Sabanci, H., & McClean, E. “The Impact of Gender Composition of the Labor Queues on Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from Corporate Sustainability Hiring” Data analysis.

[10] Kaya-Sabanci, I., Sabanci, H., & Elvira M. "The Gendered Impact of Job Insecurity on Wage Employment-Entrepreneurship Transitions: Evidence from Spain" Data analysis.

 * Denotes first authorship.