Attracting responsible employees: Green production as labor market screening

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine

doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2008.05.001

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“…These findings are consistent with studies that have argued that a firm's involvement in social causes (such as improvement of environmental reputation) generally enhances a firm's reputation, which leads to a positive impact on employee work attitudes (e.g., Brekke & Nyborg, 2008;Hess et al, 2002;Peterson, 2004). Furthermore, our study demonstrates that the adoption of environmental standards is associated with increased employee training and interpersonal contacts, which in turn contribute to improved labor productivity.…”

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Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

2012

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Summary In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the productivity of employees. In this paper, we investigate the direct relationship between environmental standards and labor productivity, as well as two mediating mechanisms through which environmental standards influence labor productivity: employee training and enhanced interpersonal contacts within the firm. Our empirical results, based on a French employer–employee survey from 5220 firms, reveal that firms that have adopted environmental standards enjoy a one standard deviation higher labor productivity than firms that have not adopted such standards. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

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“…Moreover, it turns out that, for a given altruism, public sector workers on average donate more than private sector workers. 13 While this runs counter to our theoretical predictions, we should keep in mind that these are raw correlations, which do not control for important heterogeneity between public and private sector employees, among others in education, gender, and income. To control for these, we now turn to regression analysis.…”

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Serving the public interest in several ways: Theory and empirics

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Lent

2018

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract We develop a model where people di¤er in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting e¤ort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take a public service job and, for a given job, make higher donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those with a public service job by a simple substitution argument. We subsequently test these predictions using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7,500 workers. We …nd support for our predictions, though some results are sensitive to the exact de…nition of a public service job or the estimation method. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…For these economic agents intrinsic motivation is clearly relevant. Moreover, individuals' attitudes and preferences do also influence decisions of firms too a larger degree than often presumed by economists (NCF 2006, Brekke andNyborg 2008).…”

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Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment

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Perino

2011

Environ Resource Econ

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Are prices or quantities the best regulatory instrument to align private actions with public interests in the presence of externalities? We add another dimension to this ongoing debate by experimentally analyzing the interaction between instrument choice and intrinsic motivation of regulated agents. The response of subjects facing a trade-off between real CO 2 emissions and private monetary payoffs to both a price and a quantity instrument are tested. We find evidence that taxes crowd out intrinsic motivation while emission standards are neutral. Crowding is short term persistent and not well explained by established cognitive theories of motivational crowding.JEL codes: H23, H41, Q58, C91

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Attracting responsible employees: Green production as labor market screening

Cited by 182 publications

References 26 publications

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Serving the public interest in several ways: Theory and empirics

Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment

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