Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Alexander Kritikos,
Mika Maliranta,
Veera Nippala and
Satu Nurmi
No 1422, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Abstract:
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 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 for 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 in male ownership maintain a gender pay gap of around 10 percent 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.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender Pay Gap; Discrimination; Linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J24 J31 J71 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-gen, nep-hrm, nep-ict, nep-lma and nep-sbm
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