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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011
entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 2008
true nature of their assertion is linked to entrepreneurs' instincts of gaining economic benefits. It is the poorly …
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The Determinants of Virtue: Modelling Changes in the CSR Ratings of Chinese Firms
Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Wang, Jinmin - 2017
Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...
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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
true nature of their assertion is linked to entrepreneurs’ instincts of gaining economic benefits. It is the poorly …
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Modelling charitable donations to an unexpected natural disaster: evidence from the U.S. panel study of income dynamics
Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Taylor, Karl - 2009
to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …
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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
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Gender Differences in Charitable Giving
Piper, Greg; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last resultgenerally derives from the focus on mean amount given...
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