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Within and Between Firm Trends in Job Polarization: Role of Globalization and Technology

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - 2016

This paper analyzes occupational polarization within and across firms using comprehensive matched employer-employee panel data from Finland. The occupational distribution in Finland has been polarizing over the last few decades, with mid-level production and clerical jobs eroding while low-skill...

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Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2016

firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillover through labor mobility. Strikingly, firms established in …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 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...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?

Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014

We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - 2014

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

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Stock option taxation: A missing piece in European innovation policy?

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

Venture capital has become a dominant form of innovation finance, used by many high-tech startups. Europe lags the U …

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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship relative to the U.S. Once we account for Europe's strong performance in technological innovation, an …

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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity: A cross-country comparison

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

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Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014

strong performance in technological innovation. …

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