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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from … and individualistic attitudes, high prevalence of trust and tolerance, and low acceptance of unequally distributed power …
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Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
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trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a … cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
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economy ; culture ; assimilation ; temporary workers …
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We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
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stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
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