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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011
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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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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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - 2014
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, 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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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023
Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517732
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Microeconomic determinants of domestic tourism expenditure in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes : theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2008
In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next...
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor);  … - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
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