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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

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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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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems

Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and start over as new sellers. Buyer trust and seller trustworthiness decrease significantly when sellers can erase their … ratings. With identity changes, trust is particularly low towards new sellers since buyers cannot discriminate between truly …

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The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010

Viitanen, Tarja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …

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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?

Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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