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Creativity in fashion design in Slovakia: the case study of Bratislava region

Pástor, Rudolf; Parízková, Jana - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper is focused on creativity in the fashion design in Slovakia. The fashion design in Bratislava region was … activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper will be presented results from research carried out between Slovak … fashion designers located in Bratislava region. The empirical work that provides the basis for this case study used a case …

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Cluster evolution in mature Industrial cluster. The case of Prato Marshallian ID after the entrance of Chinese firm populations (1945-2011)

Lazzeretti, Luciana; Capone, Francesco - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The aim of the present research is to participate to the recently resurged debate on cluster life cycle theory among scholars of New Evolutionary Geography and Industrial Economics, starting from the seminal contributions of Menzel and Fornhal (2010). Authors pointed out how the very cluster...

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Bad boys: how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...

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Movies

Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...

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The demand for social insurance: does culture matter?

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

Can different social groups develop different demands for social insurance of risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland. Language defines social groups and Swiss language groups are separated by a clear geographic border. Actual levels of social...

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The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture : Elite Control versus Cooperation in China

Chen, Shuo; Fisman, Raymond; Lan, Xiaohuan; Wang, Yongxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...

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Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism : Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies

Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Moral universalism, the extent to which individuals exhibit similar altruism and trust towards in-group and out-group members, varies widely across societies. We test the hypothesis from anthropology that the requirements of transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal...

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