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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
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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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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 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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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the psychology and economics of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010
3637 employees in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, measures of internal and external social responsibility are found to be …
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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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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; Wang, Jinmin - 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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