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This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
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We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...
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Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
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Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...
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Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in … data ; Brazil …
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. -- Child labor ; school achievement ; Brazil …
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public goods and lower income per capita. -- Institutions ; colonial heritage ; rent-seeking ; geography ; Brazil …
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This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
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This paper estimates the consequences of the decline of the Brazilian manufacturing sector for displaced workers. I estimate that earnings decline by nearly 50% after displacement relative to one year prior. About a quarter of the initial earnings loss is attributable to reduced hours of work...
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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the …
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