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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469709
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805613
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566698
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884114
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822994
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855348
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884264
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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