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examines absenteeism among individuals employed in worker cooperatives - firms that are ultimately controlled by their … and employed in cooperatives. The effect is driven by co-op members, hard-to-diagnose (and, hence, more prone to moral … hazard reporting problems) musculoskeletal conditions and large cooperatives. Conventional firms used dismissals more …
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review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the … numbers of observations, recent research has substantially enhanced our understanding of worker co-ops. -- worker cooperatives …
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Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care …
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employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …, and trust from 196 Uruguayan managers (half of them employed in worker cooperatives) and 92 first-year undergraduate …
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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...
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A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and …: how well have organizations that resemble consumers' cooperatives fared in the U.S. economy over the last century? ; are … consumers' cooperatives viable organizations in an economy dominated by capital-owned firms? ; where have cooperatives made …
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Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation. We analyze newly available, experimentally validated,...
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institutions, cooperatives, and non-profit associations in expanding the reach and effectiveness of financial education projects …This study evaluates the effect of a financial education program on migrants, emphasizing the importance of inter … Museum of Savings (MoS) - aimed to provide tailored financial education to diverse migrant groups, relying on cooperation …
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Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and … research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a crime reducing impact of education, which can be … interpreted as causal through leveraging research designs (e.g., based on education policy changes) that ensure the direction of …
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The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
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