This paper provides new evidence on the effect of changes in employment protection on worker effort. We use novel multi-organization data to examine changes in worker absence as workers move from temporary to permanent employment contracts. Earlier research has demonstrated very large negative effects of employment protection on effort. We find that the magnitudes of these effects are substantially smaller than those identified in previous studies. It has been suggested that the negative effect on effort is due to a fear of dismissal. We demonstrate that the absence behaviour of temporary workers is also influenced by incentives to attain jobs with protection that are unrelated to threat of dismissal, this has not been considered in earlier research. This channel of employment protection effects has important policy implications.
{"title":"Employment Protection, Threat and Incentive Effects on Worker Effort","authors":"S. Bradley, Colin Green, G. Leeves","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1004486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1004486","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides new evidence on the effect of changes in employment protection on worker effort. We use novel multi-organization data to examine changes in worker absence as workers move from temporary to permanent employment contracts. Earlier research has demonstrated very large negative effects of employment protection on effort. We find that the magnitudes of these effects are substantially smaller than those identified in previous studies. It has been suggested that the negative effect on effort is due to a fear of dismissal. We demonstrate that the absence behaviour of temporary workers is also influenced by incentives to attain jobs with protection that are unrelated to threat of dismissal, this has not been considered in earlier research. This channel of employment protection effects has important policy implications.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122783600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the broad mass of employment discrimination claims brought in federal court between 1988 and 2003. Unlike much scholarship, which studies a small proportion of cases that generate published opinions, we analyze a large random sample of cases. Examining a representative sample of cases allow us to better assess law's role in processing claims of discrimination and its relationship to theories of rights mobilization, organizations, and disputing. Our qualitative and quantitative data capture the dynamics of the stages of litigation. We examine the social and legal determinants of outcomes at each stage. Analyzing discrimination litigation as a sequence of alternative outcomes reveals aspects of antidiscrimination law in action that have gone unexamined in previous research. This new approach suggests that the system of employment discrimination litigation reflects the operation of social advantage and typically provides either no or modest remedies for plaintiffs. While employment discrimination litigation grew dramatically in the 1990's, it did so primarily as a system of individualized claims. Thus employment civil rights reflect many of the contradictions of the American civil justice system. A small number of cases produce large awards and have far reaching consequences for employment practices. The typical plaintiff receives neither their day in court nor a meaningful remedy. The uncertain character of outcomes drives parties to reach a settlement.
{"title":"Uncertain Justice: Litigating Claims of Employment Discrimination in the Contemporary United States","authors":"L. Nielsen, R. Nelson, Ryon Lancaster","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1093313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1093313","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the broad mass of employment discrimination claims brought in federal court between 1988 and 2003. Unlike much scholarship, which studies a small proportion of cases that generate published opinions, we analyze a large random sample of cases. Examining a representative sample of cases allow us to better assess law's role in processing claims of discrimination and its relationship to theories of rights mobilization, organizations, and disputing. Our qualitative and quantitative data capture the dynamics of the stages of litigation. We examine the social and legal determinants of outcomes at each stage. Analyzing discrimination litigation as a sequence of alternative outcomes reveals aspects of antidiscrimination law in action that have gone unexamined in previous research. This new approach suggests that the system of employment discrimination litigation reflects the operation of social advantage and typically provides either no or modest remedies for plaintiffs. While employment discrimination litigation grew dramatically in the 1990's, it did so primarily as a system of individualized claims. Thus employment civil rights reflect many of the contradictions of the American civil justice system. A small number of cases produce large awards and have far reaching consequences for employment practices. The typical plaintiff receives neither their day in court nor a meaningful remedy. The uncertain character of outcomes drives parties to reach a settlement.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122286245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted increasingly fashionable attention recently. Corporate Social Responsibility refers to corporations voluntarily assuming the responsibilities for the impacts of all aspects of their business activities on the whole society and the environment. The corporations, through Corporate Social Responsibility, try to help the society through development projects towards betterment of the standard of life. The practice of Corporate Social Responsibility is also not free from controversy and criticism. There are two opposing arguments: one, the corporations profit in manifold ways by spending on Corporate Social Responsibility projects; the other, Corporate Social Responsibility is criticized and opposed in that it makes the corporations deviate from their primary economic roles in doing business. The debate has not yet rested. This paper attempts to resolve this debate by highlighting the Indian views of Corporate Social Responsibility.
企业社会责任(Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR)近年来引起了越来越多的关注。企业社会责任是指企业自愿为其经营活动的各个方面对整个社会和环境的影响承担责任。通过企业社会责任，企业试图通过发展项目来帮助社会提高生活水平。企业社会责任的实践也不是没有争议和批评。有两种相反的观点:一种观点认为，企业通过在企业社会责任项目上的支出，以多种方式获利;另一方面，企业社会责任受到批评和反对，因为它使企业在经营中偏离了其主要的经济角色。争论还没有结束。本文试图通过突出印度对企业社会责任的看法来解决这一争论。
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Pub Date : 2008-03-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-1714.2008.00050.X
Cristie L. Ford
The UK securities regulator, the Financial Services Authority, claims that its principles-based approach to securities regulation is simply better than what it characterizes as the prescriptive, rules-based American approach. The striking shift in financial sector business from New York to London over the last two years has brought the question of the wisdom of principles-based regulation into sharp relief. In fact, an FSA-style regulatory approach may also be taking hold in Canada, through the agency of the province of British Columbia. This paper examines BC's innovative proposals for a principles-based securities regime through the lens of New Governance theory. I argue that the BC approach is significant in that its outcome-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and open-ended methods share features with promising New Governance approaches to regulation and public problem-solving more generally. Principles-based regulation is especially noteworthy with regard to firm compliance processes, because it seeks to engage firms in their own endogenous learning about compliance. Moreover, New Governance is a necessary complement to principles-based securities regulation. It provides a rational, systematic means through which industry learning and the input of third party stakeholders can fill in the content of otherwise vague principles. This paper identifies, and develops provisional responses to, some of the challenges arising from applying New Governance theory to the specific context of securities regulation. Those challenges include justifying imposing on industry the costs of articulating the content of principles ex post (as opposed to rules, which impose costs on regulators/legislators ex ante); reconciling light touch regulation with a rolling best practices rulemaking regime; confirming that industry has incentives to innovate, particularly in compliance processes; and identifying means for addressing capacity issues associated with requiring diverse industry actors to interpret principles for themselves.
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Warana, a small district of Maharashtra state in India is a well-developed rural area. Much of Warana's success is due to the presence of a strong co-operative movement. About 50,000 farmers live in 100 villages spread in the 25,000-kilometer area covered by the scores of cooperatives. The main economic activity is sugar cane growing and processing. Emerging from the cooperative movement, The Warananagar Cooperative Complex in India has become famous as a precursor of successful integrated rural development, youth using technology. Warananagar Cooperative Complex, with support of Maharashtra state government and Government of India, started a project Warana Wire Project, providing ICT facilities in 70 villages, in turn this has benefited the whole region in general and youth in special. The case study emphasise cooperative efforts using ICT through youth in rural development.
{"title":"A Case Study on the Warana Wired Village Project 'Cooperatives Empowers Youth'","authors":"Dr. Sweta V. Patel, V. Sapovadia","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1068970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1068970","url":null,"abstract":"Warana, a small district of Maharashtra state in India is a well-developed rural area. Much of Warana's success is due to the presence of a strong co-operative movement. About 50,000 farmers live in 100 villages spread in the 25,000-kilometer area covered by the scores of cooperatives. The main economic activity is sugar cane growing and processing. Emerging from the cooperative movement, The Warananagar Cooperative Complex in India has become famous as a precursor of successful integrated rural development, youth using technology. Warananagar Cooperative Complex, with support of Maharashtra state government and Government of India, started a project Warana Wire Project, providing ICT facilities in 70 villages, in turn this has benefited the whole region in general and youth in special. The case study emphasise cooperative efforts using ICT through youth in rural development.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115699558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is now in the middle of developing a new international standard on social responsibility (SR), namely ISO 26000. This paper introduces: (1) the process in which ISO 26000 has been developed so far; (2) the structure of the standard which has come to light; and (3) some points that we should consider based on the first two points in order to understand the nature of ISO 26000 better. This paper argues that ISO should seek to harmonize process standards on SR rather than substantive ones if it wants to add its own value to the recent international movement towards enhanced social responsibility. It is also argued that despite an interpretation that the standard under development is not a management system standard (MSS), ISO 26000 cannot avoid having a certain form of MSS. Lastly, this paper points out that a certain type of conformity assessment will be inevitable although developers of ISO 26000 do not want users to employ the standard as a framework of the third-party certification, or even conformity assessment as a whole.
{"title":"Understanding the Nature of ISO 26000, a Coming International Standard on Social Responsibility","authors":"Han-Kyun Rho","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1275586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1275586","url":null,"abstract":"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is now in the middle of developing a new international standard on social responsibility (SR), namely ISO 26000. This paper introduces: (1) the process in which ISO 26000 has been developed so far; (2) the structure of the standard which has come to light; and (3) some points that we should consider based on the first two points in order to understand the nature of ISO 26000 better. This paper argues that ISO should seek to harmonize process standards on SR rather than substantive ones if it wants to add its own value to the recent international movement towards enhanced social responsibility. It is also argued that despite an interpretation that the standard under development is not a management system standard (MSS), ISO 26000 cannot avoid having a certain form of MSS. Lastly, this paper points out that a certain type of conformity assessment will be inevitable although developers of ISO 26000 do not want users to employ the standard as a framework of the third-party certification, or even conformity assessment as a whole.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121081707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anecdote and impression in Australia is that it is race discrimination complaints in particular that consistently fail because complainants cannot discharge this burden of proof. Based on a text analysis of all reported decisions, since 2000, on race discrimination complaints under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act, and under the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth), my research will provide an empirical answer to the question: 'To what extent do race discrimination complaints fail in courts and tribunals because of this challenging burden of proof?'. The focus is on matters where a complaint is dismissed because the court cannot say what the basis for the other person's conduct was, or says that the basis for the other person's conduct was a ground other than race. This leads to deliberation on the difference it would make to require an alleged discriminator to show they did not discriminate, that is, to shift the burden of proof to the respondent if and when the complainant can establish that there was less favourable treatment. The possibility and permissibility of shifting the burden during a hearing has not been canvassed in recent reviews of anti-discrimination legislation, but is established in the European Union by way of Directive 2000/43/EC, and is being implemented across Europe, including in the UK the Race Relations Act 1976.
{"title":"Proof and Direct Discrimination","authors":"S. Rice","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1065741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1065741","url":null,"abstract":"Anecdote and impression in Australia is that it is race discrimination complaints in particular that consistently fail because complainants cannot discharge this burden of proof. Based on a text analysis of all reported decisions, since 2000, on race discrimination complaints under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act, and under the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth), my research will provide an empirical answer to the question: 'To what extent do race discrimination complaints fail in courts and tribunals because of this challenging burden of proof?'. The focus is on matters where a complaint is dismissed because the court cannot say what the basis for the other person's conduct was, or says that the basis for the other person's conduct was a ground other than race. This leads to deliberation on the difference it would make to require an alleged discriminator to show they did not discriminate, that is, to shift the burden of proof to the respondent if and when the complainant can establish that there was less favourable treatment. The possibility and permissibility of shifting the burden during a hearing has not been canvassed in recent reviews of anti-discrimination legislation, but is established in the European Union by way of Directive 2000/43/EC, and is being implemented across Europe, including in the UK the Race Relations Act 1976.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132346248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We explore the timing of the replacement of a manager as an important incentive mechanism, using a real options approach in a situation where the timing of the decision to replace the manager is related to a major change in a firm's strategies that involves spending large amounts of various sunk adjustment costs. In particular, we study this problem not only in a growing firm, but also in a declining firm under a continuous-time agency setting. We show that when renegotiation is not possible, the early replacement of the manager of a lower quality project (prior to the first-best trigger level) occurs only if a moral hazard problem exists. In addition, we indicate that the possibility of renegotiation drastically changes the results. The comparative static results with respect to the volatility of the business environment, the strength of the firm's governance and the competitiveness of the managerial labor market provide several empirical predictions related to executive compensation and turnover.
{"title":"Optimal Timing of Management Turnover in Agency Conflicts","authors":"K. Hori, Hiroshi Osano","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.942927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.942927","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the timing of the replacement of a manager as an important incentive mechanism, using a real options approach in a situation where the timing of the decision to replace the manager is related to a major change in a firm's strategies that involves spending large amounts of various sunk adjustment costs. In particular, we study this problem not only in a growing firm, but also in a declining firm under a continuous-time agency setting. We show that when renegotiation is not possible, the early replacement of the manager of a lower quality project (prior to the first-best trigger level) occurs only if a moral hazard problem exists. In addition, we indicate that the possibility of renegotiation drastically changes the results. The comparative static results with respect to the volatility of the business environment, the strength of the firm's governance and the competitiveness of the managerial labor market provide several empirical predictions related to executive compensation and turnover.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129939423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-08-15DOI: 10.1332/030557307780713022
Terry Carney AO, G. Ramia, A. Chapman
Analyses of the labour-social policy nexus are predominantly cross-national and regional in approach. Comparisons of individual policy domains within nations are less common. This paper is an intra-national comparative analysis of jobseekers and workers with family responsibilities in Australia, focusing on the relationship between labour law and social security law in each domain. The comparison demonstrates that cross-national comparativism can benefit from insights provided by intra-national approaches. Most notably, intra-nationalism sheds different light on the relative integrative potential of labour and social policies. It also elevates the role of the law and of moral values in the process of marketisation.
{"title":"Comparativism, the Labour-Social Policy Nexus and Intra-National Analysis: A Case Study","authors":"Terry Carney AO, G. Ramia, A. Chapman","doi":"10.1332/030557307780713022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557307780713022","url":null,"abstract":"Analyses of the labour-social policy nexus are predominantly cross-national and regional in approach. Comparisons of individual policy domains within nations are less common. This paper is an intra-national comparative analysis of jobseekers and workers with family responsibilities in Australia, focusing on the relationship between labour law and social security law in each domain. The comparison demonstrates that cross-national comparativism can benefit from insights provided by intra-national approaches. Most notably, intra-nationalism sheds different light on the relative integrative potential of labour and social policies. It also elevates the role of the law and of moral values in the process of marketisation.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128172190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peer effects are possibly very important for educational performance but hard to identify. This paper confirms the existence of peer effects in a learning process with data from an experiment. The experimental approach circumvents key econometric problems which greatly restrict the analysis of educational peer effects with administrative or survey data. The experimental setting offers some insight into the mechanisms of peer interaction. The results show that prospective cooperation has a motivational effect. There is no evidence with respect to an optimal group composition. The benefit from the pair treatment is largely independent of the characteristics of the partner.
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