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The role of Culture on Self-Employment
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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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 selected as one of the creative industry for our research. The aim of the paper is to analyze creativity and innovation activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740427
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132046
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CHALLENGES IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: CAN ISTANBUL SURVIVE WITHOUT A MASTER PLAN?
KERIMOGLU, EBRU; KORAMAZ, KEREM; YAZGI, BURCIN; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Abstract Tourism has been considered as an instrument for urban and regional 'development' policies for many countries, especially for cities/urban areas. Cities are themselves among the important destinations. They offer many touristic attractions together and tourism facilities become a more...
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Does High Speed Rail services influence tourists? choice? Some concerns from Paris and Roma and other linked cities
Delaplace, Marie; PAGLIARA, FRANCESCA; Perrin, Julie - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Improvement of transportation has contributed to tourism expansion. Indeed tourism implies mobility and mobility needs transportation. Furthermore, transportation links the various destinations and people, goods, and services. The link between HSR services and tourism has been investigated only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740499
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Measurement of Use and Non-use Values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM Consistent with TCM
Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Shirakami Mountain Range has the largest primeval forest in the world, and has some public functions; the biodiversity function, the water resource cultivation function, the health and recreation function and so on. This study tries to measure its environmental economic value by using the travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740523
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Tourism and regional growth in Europe
Paci, Raffaele; Marrocu, Emanuela - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried out for the period 1999-2009 and it is based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740546
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PERCEPTIONS OF RESIDENTS OF THE HOSTING OF THE 'GUIMARÃES 2012?, EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE: AN ´EX-ANTE` APROACH
Remoaldo, Paula; Mota, Mécia; Ribeiro, José Cadima - European Regional Science Association - 2013
In a context of economic crisis, is culture doomed to have a minor role in public policies or, by the contrary, is it … hosting mega events such as the European Capitals of Culture? The European Capital of Culture is an annual mega event, which … hosting city of the 2012 European Capital of Culture (2012 ECOC) in the ex-ante period (the year of 2011). Through a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818285