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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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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … relationship to be stronger for male union members and those in the private sector. Gender group size based analysis reveals a …
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This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …
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Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...
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We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...
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(panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … panel data set for Serbia, this paper combines both of these issues. Estimation of gross transition probabilities reveals … (though, owing to the gender earnings gap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959558
on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …
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