Girl Power: Creating More with Less

Studies show that women are very productive employees, but that as business owners, compared to their male counterparts, they run companies that earn less, grow at a lesser rate, and employ a smaller number of employees. One of the explanations for this discrepancy argues that indicators such as sales, turnover or profit do not measure performance adequately because they are dependent on the size of the firm. Since women often make a conscious decision to keep their companies small, these performance measures may not adequately represent women-owned businesses. We study a panel of micro firms across all industries, from three EU countries of comparable size (Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia) in the period 2010 – 2019. Results indicate that female-owned firms have higher values of both turnover per asset and value added per asset. Additionally, results suggest that during recession years, female-led firms show a degree of resilience to these adverse effects, and they manage to increase their turnover per asset by 3 to 4 percent on average, compared to male-led firms. We conclude that although women-owned micro firms tend to have less resources compared to men’s, women can create larger output per asset, suggesting capability to combine those resources in a very effective way

Adoption of digital and ICT technologies and firms’ productivity

This paper has two main goals. First, it aims to answer the question on how the usage of ICT and digital technologies affects firm productivity. Second, it aims to analyze how change in the share of the manufacturing sector and/or the service sector in a given region direct changes in firm productivity. The analysis was carried out using a financial dataset of Croatian enterprises in the period from 2009 to 2019 and Eurostats’ Digital Economy and Society data, based on “Community survey on ICT usage and ecommerce in enterprises”. The data were analyzed using principal component analysis and panel data methods. The results indicate a positive relationship between adoption of ICT technologies and firm productivity, and a negative correlation between adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. Furthermore, the results show a high degree of deindustrialization of certain regions and a positive correlation between industry intensity in certain regions and firm productivity. Finally, there seems to be a positive premium on productivity for larger-sized firms, firms participating in international trade, companies situated near to key international markets (i.e., located in counties bordering with the City of Zagreb)

Pregled tržišta nekretnina Republike Hrvatske : 2020

Osnovni je cilj objavljivanja publikacije učiniti temeljne informacije o stanju i trendovima na tržištu nekretnina javno dostupnima i na takav način omogućiti ekonomičnije raspolaganje nekretninama te učinkovitije i svrsishodnije upravljanje hrvatskim prostorom. Pregled tržišta nekretnina u Republici Hrvatskoj se pri tome fokusira na stanje i trendove na tržištu nekretnina te diferencira sljedeće tipove nekretnina: stanove (što uključuje i apartmane), obiteljske kuće, poslovne nekretnine, građevinska zemljišta, poljoprivredna zemljišta i šumska zemljišta. Naglasak u predstavljanju podataka je pri tome stavljen na prosječne (medijalne) kupoprodajne cijene nekretnina, prosječnu veličinu nekretnina koje su predmet kupoprodajnih transakcija te prosječnu starost nekretnine (ukoliko se radi o rezidencijalnim tipovima nekretnina). Za svaki pobrojani tip nekretnine i za svaki pokazatelj prikazuju se podaci na nacionalnoj razini, zatim na razini županija i jedinica lokalne samouprave te na razini katastarskih općina Grada Zagreba