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 …

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …

model explains the economic origins of culture. It was no accident that the intricate steps of tango emerged in the shabby …

identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first … show that the prevalence of an oppositional culture in the minority group cannot always be sustained in equilibrium. Indeed … group that favors the diffusion of mainstream values in the minority community. In spite of this, an oppositional culture in …

Free trade in audio-visual services has faced opposition on the grounds that foreign media undermine domestic culture …, and ultimately, global diversity. We assess the media-culture link using name frequencies as a measure of tastes. Using a …

This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a … key economic outcome: female labour supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I …