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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

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 Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006

In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...

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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of two Reforms

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - CESifo - 2011

We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...

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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …

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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …

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Sorting into Outsourcing: Are Profits Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Length?

Bauer, Christian Josef; Langenmayr, Dominika - CESifo - 2012

into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with …

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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is …

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Voting in the European Union – Central Europe’s Lost Voice

Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008

Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU’s total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members’ impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited....

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Labor Market Regulation and the Legal System

Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - CESifo - 2007

When enacting labor market regulation governments face courts that interpret and implement the legal code. We show that the incentives for governments for labor market reform increase with the uncertainty that is involved in the implementation of legal codes through courts. Given that judges...

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