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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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The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited … corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the newly (post …-reform) appointed female board members were observably more qualified than their female predecessors, and that the gender gap in …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish …
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This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
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year panel data. We find that the expansion of employment for women is concentrated in the services occupations. …
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(panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … panel data set for Serbia, this paper combines both of these issues. Estimation of gross transition probabilities reveals … (though, owing to the gender earnings gap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment …
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disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel data techniques to take account of unobserved …
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Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) panel data of 2000 and 2001. We provide two types of evidence. First, we compute annual … assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to …
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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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