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This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
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Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the literature’s conclusion on the effectiveness of such programs is ambiguous, and for the European region there is a lack of evidence based on a large...
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will relinquish its responsibility for environmental protection. This paper analyses recent experiences with voluntary …
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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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responsibility attribution towards Arabic refugees. Participants in the laboratory experience a positive or negative income shock …. Responsibility attribution is measured by beliefs about whether the shock is due to the other participant's performance or the random … draw. We find evidence for reverse discrimination: Natives attribute responsibility more favorably to refugees than to …
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