TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kritikos, Alexander S.
A1  - Maliranta, Mika
A1  - Nippala, Veera
A1  - Nurmi, Satu
T1  - Does gender of firm ownership matter?
T2  - Journal of population economics
N2  - 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 the wage is measured, as well as to various further robustness checks. More importantly, we find substantial differences between industries. While, for instance, in the manufacturing sector, the gender of the owner plays no role in the gender pay gap, in several service sector industries, like ICT or business services, no or a negligible gender pay gap can be found, but only when firms are led by female business owners. Businesses with male ownership maintain a gender pay gap of around 10% also in the latter industries. With increasing firm size, the influence of the gender of the owner, however, fades. In large firms, it seems that others—firm managers—determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms.
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - discrimination
KW  - linked employer-employee data
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64734
SN  - 0933-1433
SN  - 1432-1475
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 31
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -