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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita - 2019
heterogeneity of immigrant groups with respect to gender, age, country of origin and – if applicable – refugee status, and study …
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Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests : Evidence from the GRE Test
Schlosser, Analia - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low” stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a...
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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Culture and tax structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development : Common Misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and Internationalization
Wang, Hao - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta - 2021
migrants return to work earlier and work longer hours than their West German colleagues even after long exposure to the more … their East German colleagues. West German return migrants continue to be influenced by the more gender egalitarian East … to work after childbirth, suggesting that migration might be a catalyst for cultural change …
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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We...
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