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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labour Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...

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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Reassessing the Role of Child Care Costs in the Work and Care Decisions of Australian Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Liu, Amy; Mitchell, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

This paper reassesses how the costs associated with child care influence Australian families’ decisions about their work and child care arrangements. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course Survey, we suggest that the cost of care may not be an important barrier to labour market...

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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

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International Trade and Transnational Insecurity: How Comparative Advantage and Power are Jointly Determined

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - CESifo - 2009

can reverse a country’s apparent comparative advantage relative to its comparative advantage in the absence of conflict …. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world prices could be inaccurate predictors of …

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