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to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the mission of the organization. Well … real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the …
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: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced by job mission. We provide empirical evidence of the importance of … show show that preferences for meaning at work, particularly meaning induced by job mission, explain gender differences in … segregation and of the consequences of corporate mission and purpose. …
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to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well … real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the …
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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … no religion made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …
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This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that Catholics, Muslims and Orthodoxs are more likely to support such "macho values" than Protestants...
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We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
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. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …
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Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …
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The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
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