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Job satisfaction in Italy: individual characteristics and social relations
Fiorillo, Damiano; Nappo, Nunzia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our econometric analysis is based on four waves (1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000) of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistics Office. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025264
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NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper contrasts competing theories and evidence on the nature and significance of African American racial identity. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is best understood as a social norm.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836196
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Diagnosis of Participation in Culture in Podlaskie Voivodship
Poleszczuk, Jan; Sztop-Rutkowska, Katarzyna; Kiszkiel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
residents of Podlasie Voivodship; identify the main barriers to participation in high culture; quantitative and qualitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260819
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Is culture a determinant of financial development?
Dutta, Nabamita; Mukherjee, Deepraj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper investigates the missing link in the literature – whether informal institutions, or what is known as culture … country can have an impact on its financial set up. We consider multiple dimensions of culture, identified in the literature … by Tabellini, to test our hypothesis. As culture evolve in the form of greater trust, control and other traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397197
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Ludzie starzy o swoim wizerunku w mediach
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The mass media play a crucial role in modern societies. Media allows reaching with information’s about current events to the broad masses of recipients, they interpret it and construct their meanings, they create a community of values, organize entertainment in leisure time and mediate in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163531
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What does a comparison between Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan tell about the cognition and institutions as social capital in the extended market order?
Baafi Antwi, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
which also has strong linkages to culture. Culture also relates to the mind of the people and their way of thinking, by … in the larger social existence. Quantitative indicators of culture and institutions as social capital was imputed from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533257
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Intergenerational mobility and interraical inequality:the return to family values
Mason, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment—parental values versus parental class status—for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619528
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Race, culture, and skill: interracial wage differentials among African Americans, Latinos, and whites
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This article examines the interrelationships among race, culture, skill, and the distribution of wages. I utilize a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621985
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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«ПОРОЧНЕ КОЛО» ІНФЛЯЦІЙНИХ ПРОЦЕСІВ В УКРАЇНІ
Филиппова, Ірина - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Exact diagnostics of inflation reasons is the necessary condition of correct stabilization policy oriented to social progress instead of the conjuncture manoeuvring. The purpose of the article is the analysis of inflation reasons in Ukraine and ranging them according to the degree of influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258426