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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 …
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …
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Are worker-managed firms really more likely to fail?
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence on firm survival comparing WMFs and conventional firms. Excluding microenterprises and controlling...
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On the optimal size of a joint savings association
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; … - 2022
We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our analysis is a Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). We measure...
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The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...
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Do employee share owners face too much financial risk?
Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R.; Weltmann, Dan; … - 2019
A major theoretical objection against employee ownership is that workers become inadequately diversified and exposed to excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's wealth portfolio can be prudently invested in employer stock provided the rest of the portfolio is...
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Manufacturing employment and women's agency : evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2022
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment (RMG) factories in new industrial zones greatly increased....
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Inter-institutional cooperation and migrants' financial education : an Italian case study
Nocito, Samuel; Venturini, Alessandra - 2024
This study evaluates the effect of a financial education program on migrants, emphasizing the importance of inter-institutional cooperation. The Italian case study, the "Welcome-ED" project - a partnership between the Municipality of Turin and the Turin Museum of Savings (MoS) - aimed to provide...
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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...
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Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises
Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022
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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