individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …

In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration … education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an … alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people’s attitudes towards immigration. We find …

analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attitude of the marginal … employer. Our results confirm that the attitudes of the marginal employer – but not those of the average employer – are …

This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans … negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods increases … the likelihood of negative attitudes. Racial prejudice exerts a strong influence on anti-foreigner sentiment. The …

This paper examines whether Swedish employers implicitly/automatically hold i) negative attitudes toward Arab … Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 1998) designed to measure implicit attitudes and productivity stereotypes … have stronger negative implicit attitudes toward Arab-Muslims relative to native Swedes as well as implicitly perceive Arab …