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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists

Morduch, Jonathan - 2018

motivated only by pure altruism will work at a relatively high wage for the for-profit firm and then make charitable … sensitive to warm glow (“impure altruism”) depends on her income level. While the presence of “warm glow” feelings would seem to … clearly benefit charitable organizations, we show that impure altruism can create distortions in labor market choices. In some …

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Does it pay to work for free? : wage returns and gender differences in the market for volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013

Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...

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Wage Equity and Employee Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations

Leete, Laura - 2001

In this paper, I argue that because nonprofit organizations rely disproportionately on intrinsically motivated employees, they provide a particularly interesting context for examining the relationship between wage dispersion and employee motivation. If certain hypotheses put forth in the...

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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...

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Does it Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido - 2013

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Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign-domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986 - 2003

Earle, John S. (contributor); Telegdy, Álmos (contributor) - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Micro-evidence on rent sharing from different perspectives

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare across-industry heterogeneity in rent-sharing...

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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Angelova, Vera - 2010

One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...

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Exploring the effects of unequal and secretive pay

Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - 2009

We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...

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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011

We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...

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