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Social incentives matter : evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
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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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 employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...
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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms
Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017
Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...
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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market
Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023
Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...
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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010
The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...
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Social responsibility in market interaction
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...
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Low-skilled jobs and student jobs : employers' preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015
Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to better understanding of temporary...
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The legacy of COVID-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …
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