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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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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education toLow and Middle Income Countries: The Need toReview, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
effectiveness of financial education in low and middleincome countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360585
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit:Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit marketimperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion forvillagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional onborrowing from any source,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360593
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Does Self-Employment Increase the EconomicWell-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today’s skill intensive economy and their opportunitiescontinue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforceare more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater publicexpenses, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360618
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Field Experiments with Firms
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questionsrelating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within andacross firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firmsgenerally aim to shed light on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360520
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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cellphoneson Productivity in a Diffi cult Business Climate:Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators toovercome constraints associated … owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by usinginformation on the regional presence of … averageregional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoptionimproves value-added per worker by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360554
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Ratesin the Portuguese Economy: The Role ofOpenness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour marketrigidity in the determination … sectorsand that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technologysectors. We use this index in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360573
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
proposes a simple theory ofskill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross-country, historical andmicro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360578
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth:The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters).We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … to producer specificexternal economic factors. These exogenous technology shifters are aggregated (via hedonicaggregator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360600
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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...
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