We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women …

identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of …

how immigrants identify with the culture of their home and receiving countries, and if natives and immigrants have the …

conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … be attributed solely to racial discrimination but can be explained by the response of culture to institutional … transmitted through culture can help to explain this persistent saving disparity. …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …