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The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how … their job are noticeably higher in firms that are perceived as more engaged in CSR activities both towards their internal … social responsibility thus reflecting that smaller firms tend to show higher assessments regarding CSR. Similar relationships …
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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 Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
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responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms’ productive characteristics influence managers’ attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … whether their values in favour of CSR are positively correlated to firms’ economic performance. Although a large proportion of … respondents express a favourable view of CSR and a willingness to participate in socially responsible activities, we find that the …
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We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with … takers together with data on government subsidies to public universities. We compare the characteristics of students who … succeed in the exam to those who do not and those who enter public universities to those who go to private ones. Our …
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In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...
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The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
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