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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean

Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023

Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …

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Social change

Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008

A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...

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Can policy interact with culture? : minimum wage and the quality of labor relations

Aghion, Philippe (contributor); Algan, Yann (contributor); … - 2008

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

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Is crime contagious?

Ludwig, Jens (contributor); Kling, Jeffrey R. (contributor) - 2006

Understanding whether criminal behavior is "contagious" is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations

Corneo, Giacomo - 2009

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...

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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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Peers at work

Mas, Alexandre (contributor); Moretti, Enrico (contributor) - 2006

We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity worker could lower the effort of incumbent workers because of free riding; or it could increase the...

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