Employees show more commitment to an employer that promotes the greater good, and they work harder too. Moreover, many people are willing to give up some of their compensation to contribute to a social cause. Being able to attract a motivated workforce would be particularly important for the...

Motivation represents a foundation corestone on which analyses in a number of the humanities and social sciences are built. For a long time, economists have seen motivation as connected with the act of giving, trying to interpret it in the context of the neoclassical economics assumptions. On...

To identify dual-process reasoning in giving, we exposed experimental participants making a charitable donation to vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective manipulation on giving would be larger when we...

The paper, starting with the flood disaster that erupted in Henan in July 2021 and taking the enterprise charity practice of EREK as a single case research object, discusses why a bankrupt company can revive from charitable donation. The paper, putting forward the mechanism of enterprise...

For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3...

Der Zustrom von Flüchtlingen nach Deutschland bestimmt seit Monaten die öffentliche Debatte. Nach der im Januar dieses Jahres durchgeführten Umfrage "Stimmungsbarometer zu Flüchtlingen in Deutschland" sieht etwas weniger als ein Drittel der Erwachsenen in Deutschland in der...

Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is...

Survey and register data indicate that many employees prefer a socially responsible employer and will accept a lower wage to achieve this. Laboratory experiments support the hypothesis that socially responsible groups are more productive than others, partly because they attract cooperative...

Bis 2010 hatten 27 bis 40 Prozent aller Haushalte in den Euroländern geerbt oder eine Schenkung erhalten. Darunter fallen nur Transfers, die von außerhalb des eigenen Haushalts kamen. Der Gegenwartswert dieser Transfers lag durchschnittlich zwischen 85 000 Euro und 274 000 Euro je nach Land....