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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms andNormative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy:Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combinesmultiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and theirbehavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-thejobethical...

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Risk Management among the Poor:The Case of Microfi nancial Services

Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the riskmanagement strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of thehousehold’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying orderedprobit models and additionally probit...

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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction:A State-wise Assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit K. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services ataffordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes toinclude maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important partof financial services...

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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed tochanges in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current PopulationSurvey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained bychanges in wage setting between and...

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …

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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce:How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services andthe decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empiricalanalysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions ofheterogeneous...

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Offshoring and Firm Performance:Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

turns out that, compared tonon-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and hada …, and this points to self-selection of “better” firms into offshoring.This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from theliterature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

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