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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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 Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...

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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?

Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees’ well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms’ productive characteristics influence managers’ attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are...

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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …

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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …

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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

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