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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata
Kemeny, Tom - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
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Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-Social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge
Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2023
Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers : Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2015
inform fundraising choices …
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
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Creative Unemployment
Roed, Knut - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2011
relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Creativity over Time and Space
Serafinelli, Michel - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation … and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe … political freedoms and promoting local autonomy facilitates the attraction and production of creative talent …
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