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MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self … differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological … approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision. …

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The institutional and economic foundations of regional proto-federations.

Economou, Emmanouil Marios Lazaros; Kyriazis, Nicholas; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

In the present paper we analyse for the first time as far as we know, the ancient Greek regional proto-federations, of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies...

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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

. We will draw our attention also to history of fashion design in Slovakia. More in detail we anaåyze the value added chain … suppliers and customers, markets etc. The paper examines also recent state of the impact of global economic crisis on the …

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Cultural Distance and Gravity Effects among Migrants

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2013

of the presence of significant gravity effects of culture. The paper seeks to highlight three new research issues: (i … different immigrant groups; and (iii) the full culture-based development (CBD) mechanism of a joint cultural impact on the …

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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation

Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...

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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Akkemik, K. Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...

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TOURISM AS POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS IN ITALY

Manitiu, Dorel Nicolae - European Regional Science Association - 2013

development policies as a possibile answer to globalization and economic crisis. Firms operating in the tourism sector usually …

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Trends in Restructuring NMS Regional Economies as Responses to Transformation, Crisis and EU Membership. A Spotlight on Suceava County

Ileanu, Bogdan-Vasile; Goschin, Zizi; Constantin, … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava's economy and which regional development factors were the most important (exogenous, endogenous, structural, socio-political ones, etc.)? Which is the relationship between social...

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Cultures, Worldviews, and Intergenerational Altruism

Kubota, Kohei; Kamesaka, Akiko; Ogaki, Masao; Ohtake, Fumio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper presents empirical evidence concerning effects of cultural differences on parents' attitudes toward children from unique U.S. and Japanese survey data. These data sets have been collected by Osaka University, and contain questions concerning worldviews and religions, hypothetical...

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Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews

Ogaki, Masao; Lee, SunYoun; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug - European Regional Science Association - 2014

not explained by income differences, a natural candidate for explaining such variation is culture. Some researchers have … Hiebert (2008), we see a worldview behind each culture. Here, a worldview consists of the explicit and implicit levels. He …

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