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Corporate Social Responsibility in the work place –Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility(CSR) on workers’ motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant,CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. Weare testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits given...

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Explaining Differences in Job Search OutcomesBetween Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probabilitythat employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. Thejob finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed jobseekers, and this...

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A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession:The Case of Denmark

Andersen, Torben M. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Flexicurity labour markets are characterised by flexible hiring/firing rules, generous socialsafety net, and active labour market policies. How can such labour markets cope with theconsequences of the Great Recession? Larger labour shedding is to be expected and thisstrains the social safety net...

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Downsizing the Labor Force by Low and High Profit Firms– An Experimental Analysis

Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional eects of downsizingthe labor force in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischeret al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagentscenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...

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Expected Wages and Other LaborMarket Factors Affecting the LaborForce Decisions of Nurses in the Stateof Iowa

Doorenbos, Todd; Imerman, Mark; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

The Iowa Department of Public Health has undertaken several independent projects to evaluate various aspects of the labor environment affecting Iowa healthcare over the recent past. This research expands upon the results of these efforts to estimate the effects of a number of wage and nonwage...

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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition

Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with thebest access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. Theseworkers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling...

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Off-farm labor supply responses to permanentand transitory farm income

Kwon, Chul-Woo; Orazem, Peter F.; Otto, Daniel M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

transitory components of farm income. Off-farm labor supply of both spouses declines in response to increases in permanent farm … income. Farm wives also reduce off-farm labor supply in response to positive transitory farm income shocks. Consequently, one … mechanism farm households use to smooth their goods consumption when facing fluctuating farm income is to modify their …

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Better Dead than GM-Fed? Information and theEffects of Consumers’ Resistance to GM-Foods inHigh-Income Countries

Huffman, Wallace E.; Rousu, Matthew C.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...

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Selbstständige in der Grundsicherung

May-Strobl, Eva; Pahnke, André; Schneck, Stefan; … - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung <Bonn> - 2011

Der Mittelstand besteht überwiegend aus Kleinstunternehmen, in denen der Unternehmensgründer allein tätig ist, und etablierten kleinen Unternehmen sowie Freiberuflern, die überwiegend lokale Märkte bedienen und keine oder wenige Mitarbeiter beschäftigen.2 Charakteristisch für den...

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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market:Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affectedChinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded tothe events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present inthe U.S. It first suspended all forced...

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