Is corporate social responsibility associated with lower wages?

Karine Nyborg and Tao Zhang (tao.zhang@frisch.uio.no)
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Tao Zhang: Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research, Postal: Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research, Gaustadalléen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway

No 01/2011, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Firms with a reputation as socially responsible may have an important cost advantage: If workers prefer their employer to be socially responsible, equilibrium wages may be lower in such firms. We explore this hypothesis, combining Norwegian register data with data on firm reputation collected by an employer branding firm. Adjusting for a large set of background variables, we find that the firm’s social responsibility reputation is significantly associated with lower wages.

Keywords: Self-regulation; wage differentials; CSR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 D21 D64 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2011-01-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hme, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-soc
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