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Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …
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Corporate philanthropy and productivity : evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
increase social compensation, with women more likely than men. Furthermore, offering subjects some discretion in choosing their …
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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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Corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance
Goerke, Laszlo - 2018
We theoretically analyse the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance of an oligopolistic firm. The firm maximises a weighted sum of profits and a CSR objective which depends on output and the firm's contribution to public good provision, i.e. tax payments....
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The performance of socially responsible investments : a meta-analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Yüksel, Gülistan - 2022
In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). After a thorough literature search, we review 153 empirical studies containing 1,047 observations of SRI performance. We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms...
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...
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Is social responsibility a normal good?
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A. - 2018
We investigate whether growth in consumer income causes an increased willingness to pay to mitigate negative externalities from consumption. Correlational field evidence suggests a positive relationship between income and social responsibility. To investigate a causal link, we conduct a...
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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...
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Lock-in effects in online labor markets
Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021
This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...
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Taxation and global spillovers in the digital advertising market : theory and evidence from Facebook
Lassmann, Andrea; Liberini, Federica; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020
We study the effects of taxation on the international online advertising market, using data on Facebook ad prices, Facebook users product preferences and international trade. Our data encompass a de facto increase in the platform's corporate tax rate in several countries. We show that, due to...
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