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Diskussionspapiere 2079 / 2024
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 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in maleowned firms. Results are robust ...
2024| Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on their technological level. We find that urban economies have the largest impact on firm productivity in high-technology industries, while they have no effectin low-technology industries. For firms in the ...
In:
Regional Studies
58 (2024), 11, S. 1999–2010
| Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
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Externe Monographien
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 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in maleowned firms. Results are robust ...
2024,
39 S.
(GLO Discussion Paper Series ; 1422)
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
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Externe Monographien
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 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in maleowned firms. Results are robust ...
Potsdam:
Universität Potsdam,
2024,
39 S.
(CEPA Discussion Paper ; 76)
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This article presents the new linked employee-employer study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE2), which offers new research opportunities for various academic fields. In particular, the study contains two waves of an employer survey for persons in dependent work that is also linkable to the SOEP, a large representative German annual household panel (SOEP-LEE2-Core). Moreover, SOEP-LEE2 includes ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
244 (2024), 5/6 S. 671–684
| Wenzel Matiaske, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, Martina Maas, Doris Holtmann, Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Stefan Liebig, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Medienbeitrag
Zu viel Bürokratie kann Unternehmen die Luft zum Atmen nehmen. Wichtiger als die Zahl der Vorschriften ist aber die Qualität der Verwaltung. Behörden müssen der Versuchung widerstehen, bürokratische Schritte auf Unternehmen und Bürger abzuwälzen. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander S. Kritikos erschien am 6. November 2023 in der FAZ. Die jedes Jahr pünktlich zum medialen Sommerloch auftauchende Forderung ...
06.11.2023| Alexander S. Kritikos
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18.10.2023| Wochenberichtsinterview
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This article investigates the impact of reorganization on productivity within public-sector firms addressing the owners' composition, the board-management relationship, and the management's decision to outsource activities. Considering a large panel of 2,325 German municipally owned utilities between 2003 and 2014, firm-level productivity is estimated based on a control function approach. Contrary ...
In:
International Public Management Journal
26 (2023), 4, S. 463–488
| Caroline Stiel
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
The Journal of Technology Transfer
48 (2023), 4, S. 1161–1175
| Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexander S. Kritikos, Aggelos Tsakanikas
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Firms with superior productivity, labeled superstar firms, are argued to be the link between rising concentration and the fall of the aggregate labor share in the US. This analysis confirms that similar evidence is found within the European context: the market share and firm size increase, whereas the labor share decreases with productivity. One of the much discussed mechanisms behind this development ...
In:
Journal of Applied Economics
25 (2022), 1, S. 583-603
| Caroline Stiel, Alexander Schiersch