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We examine how the gender of business owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is—starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12%—two to three percentage points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in male-owned firms. Results are robust to how ...
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Journal of Population Economics
37 (2024), Art. 52, 31 S.
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
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We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At the first stage, we find that the ...
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The Journal of Technology Transfer
48 (2023), 4, S. 1161–1175
| Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexander S. Kritikos, Aggelos Tsakanikas
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We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text classification approach that extracts information about interventions from news articles and calibrate our procedure to data about actual interventions. This new dataset allows us to document stylized facts about the use of foreign exchange interventions for countries that ...
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IMF Economic Review
71 (2023), 4, S. 852–884
| Marcel Fratzscher, Tobias Heidland, Lukas Menkhoff, Lucio Sarno, Maik Schmeling
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
47 (2023), 3, S. 788-830
| Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
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Small Business Economics
61 (2023), S. 1027–1051
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodríguez, Claudia Stier
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Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, and ...
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Small Business Economics
61 (2023), S. 869–889
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
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This article shows the potentials of georeferenced data for labor market research. We review developments in the literature and highlight areas that can benefit from exploiting georeferenced data. Moreover, we share our experiences in geocoding administrative employment data including wage and socioeconomic information of almost the entire German workforce between 2000 and 2017. To make the data easily ...
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Journal for Labour Market Research
56 (2022), 5, 104002, S. 4-17
| Kerstin Ostermann, Johann Eppelsheimer, Nina Gläser, Peter Haller, Martina Oertel
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In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, ...
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Small Business Economics
59 (2022), 3, S. 1273–1299
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
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Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, S. 736–761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the ...
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Small Business Economics
58 (2022), 2, S.593–609
| Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik