Reference : Public family firms and economic inequality across societies
Scientific journals : Article
Business & economic sciences : Quantitative methods in economics & management
Entrepreneurship and Innovation / Audit
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54554
Public family firms and economic inequality across societies
English
Block, Jörn []
Hirschmann, Mirko mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and New Technology (EINT) >]
Kranz, Tobias []
Neuenkirch, Matthias []
2023
Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Elsevier
e00376
Yes
International
2352-6734
United States
[en] Family firms ; Entrepreneurial families ; Income inequality ; Wealth inequality ; Cross-country analysis
[en] Research and public interest on economic inequality have grown over the last years. Family firms and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few wealthy entrepreneurial families have been discussed as both a cause and a consequence of economic inequality. Yet, so far, we lack knowledge about the relationship between economic inequality and the prevalence of family firms in an economy. Our study investigates how the share of family-controlled public firms correlates with various measures of income and wealth inequality. The results show that a higher share of public family-controlled firms leads to more income inequality in a country. This effect is particularly pronounced for the middle of the income distribution as opposed to the top quantiles. Redistribution only mitigates this effect to some extent, as the effect is significant for market income and disposable income. We also find that a higher share of family-controlled firms contributes to an increase in wealth inequality. Our results are of economic relevance as, for instance, a one standard deviation change in the share of family-controlled firms leads to an increase of around 1.3–1.5 percentage points in the Gini coefficients for market income, disposable income, and wealth.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54554
10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00376
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352673423000057

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