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This study aims to explore the effects of employees? satisfaction and leadership styles with organizational commitment as the dual mediator on organizational performances of IC design houses listed in Taiwan. The research subjects are the managers and directors of the IC design houses listed in...
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Most social scientists, especially economists, believe that altruists do not exist because they cannot survive exploitation by egoists. An agent-based model demonstrates, however, that altruists can survive natural selection if society comprises four types of individuals: altruists, reciprocal...
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We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker?s rotten kids mechan- ism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of e¢fficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a...
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One of the pervasive problems with means-tested public long term care (LTC) programs is their inability to prevent individuals who could a¤ord private long term services from taking advantage of public care. They often manage to elude the means-test net through strategic impoverishment. We show...
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The theoretical constructs of egalitarianism and altruism are different from each other, yet there may be associations … between the two at the empirical level. This paper explores the empirical relationship between egalitarianism and altruism, in … model that explains the propensity of an individual to be egalitarian in terms of altruism and other background …
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giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that …
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the question, is giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artifact of experimentation? What is unique …
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Policy-makers have relied on non-coercive mechanisms to achieve socially preferred outcomes in a variety of contexts when prices fail to ration scarce resources. Amid heightened concern about environmental damage and climate change, public appeals for cooperation and pecuniary incentives are...
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A natural field experiment is conducted on the determinants of consumer’s willingness to pay for “fair trade” (FT) products. In four treatments, subjects are offered different choices in connection with a coffee purchase, such as buying regular coffee or FT coffee at a premium, regular...
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