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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901779
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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697544
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International migration : driver of political and social change?
Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016
This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454320
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726
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Cultural change and the migration choice
Lanati, Mauro; Venturini, Alessandra - 2018
Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences - such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or religion - implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and...
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What they don’t teach you about Artificial Intelligence at business school : stagnation, oil, and war
Naudé, Wim - 2024
world of ceaseless innovation is drummed into students. Third, little is discussed about AI's scaling problem - it faces … AI has essentially become a project of platform capitalism (techfeudalism) and that the last extraction zone it is being …
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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society
Naudé, Wim - 2024
Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of perpetual economic growth. This paper takes issue with the obsession with this growth myth, discussing the dangers it poses. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584338
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Immigrants and religion
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341307
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581624