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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups’ supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688921
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Health effects on children's willingness to compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307391
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A. (contributor);  … - 2008
relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755507
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Relational goods, monitoring and non-pecuniary compensations in the nonprofit sector : the case of the Italian social services
Mosca, Michele (contributor); Musella, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355650
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897511
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector : evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …’ philanthropic motivations and an experimental measure of their pro-social motivations. We find that both proxies predict health … professionals' decision to work in the non-profit sector. We also find that philanthropic health workers employed in the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939212
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376305
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690
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Wage effects of recruitment methods : the case of the Italian social service sector
Mosca, Michele (contributor); Pastore, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748941
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Nonprofit sector and part-time work : an analysis of employer-employee matched data of child care workers
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405692