The Impact of Corporate Welfare Policy on Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

We study how changes in unemployment risk affect firms’ productivity and whether firm-initiated policies can mitigate the moral hazard problem created by increases in unemployment insurance benefits (UIBs) that might decrease workers’ incentives to work hard. We focus on state-specific changes in UI...

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Authors: Darrough, Masako (Author) ; Kim, Heedong (Author) ; Zur, Emanuel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 159, Issue: 3, Pages: 795-815
Further subjects:B Productivity
B Corporate social responsibility
B Unemployment insurance benefits
B Employee-welfare policies
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