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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
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Rise of the Indian middle class and its impact on the labor market
Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2022
in Asia. The key contributors to this trend are China and India. Between 2011 and 2019, GDP per capita has surged by 66 … percent in China and 53 percent in India. Forecasts by the OECD predict that between 2030 and 2035, India will overtake China … implications that are associated with the rise of a growing middle class on India's labor market. …
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Understanding cultural persistence and change
Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2017
When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology … beneficial in stable environments where the culture that has evolved up to the previous generation is more likely to be relevant …
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
the host country culture back home. …
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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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Globalization and social change : gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Pieters, Janneke; Sparrow, Robert - 2017
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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Do politicians change public attitudes?
Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2016
A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...
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Media coverage of immigration and the polarization of attitudes
Schneider-Strawczynski, Sarah; Valette, Jérôme - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage in French television with individual panel data from 2013 to 2017 that records respondents' preferred television channel and attitudes toward immigration. The analysis focuses...
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Is there such thing as middle class values? : class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
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Parental leave : economic incentives and cultural change
Albrecht, James W.; Edin, Per-Anders; Fernández, Raquel; … - 2024
The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay-related parental leave reserved exclusively for each...
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