Showing 1 - 10 of 135
We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation … experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally buffers individuals' negative fairness judgment following the firm …'s decision to profiteer from an increase in the demand. Bad corporate reputation does not make the decision to profiteer as any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187856
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359305
In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nation-states establish a reputation … corroborates the role of reputation-building through co-ethnicity narratives as a determinant of sponsor state engagement. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318640
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919857
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759015
It has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of self-employment rates. In particular, African-American self-employment rates lag far behind rates for other racial groups. Similarly, the literature also provides evidence of the long lived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763082
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769583
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771952
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287631
This paper examines differences in two important components of non-wage compensation, employer provided health insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900223