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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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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these …

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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Jasso, Guillermina; Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …

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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Mergers of Equals and Unequals

Smeets, Valerie; Ierulli, Kathryn; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise for several reasons, including firm-specific human capital, corporate culture, power, or...

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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period...

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Firms’ Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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

Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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

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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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