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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce and the birth control pill

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - European Regional Science Association - 2013

coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …

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OFF-GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY AS A CHANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA

Ratner, Svetlana - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The problems of renewable energy sources development in Russia are complex and require long-term structural solutions in national socio-economy system. Currently, the Russian economy stays about two and half times less energy efficient and more carbon intensive than other comparable modern...

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Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel Da; Toscani, Frederik - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper studies the effect of oil discoveries on economic growth in Brazilian municipalities for the period from 1940 to 2000. It uses a unique identification strategy which exploits data on the drilling of approximately 20,000 oil wells in Brazil since oil explorations began in the country....

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Pro-environmental Behaviors, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development in Russia

Ratner, Svetlana - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The studies of environmental awareness or the so-called people's pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) became a popular topic in Europe, North America and Asia, but not yet in Russia. Many studies investigated PEBs revealed that monetary saving and health concern are considered to be the most...

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