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Reconciling the individual and societal level in comparative cultural analysis : an archetypal analysis of values and norms across 76 countries

Wit, Juliette de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2024

Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional value based models is not without discussion. A key issue concerns the observation that value diversity within countries may be larger than between countries, giving rise to a...

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Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence

Turati, Riccardo - 2024

This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...

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Too few women at the top of firms : foreign ownership, gender segregation and cultural causes

Khorana, Sangeeta; Webster, Allan D. - 2023

This study uses enterprise survey data from a sample of 26 countries to address the question "why are there too few women at the top of firms?". That is, it asks why the proportion of firms with females at the top is low in relation to the share of females in full-time employment. To reduce the...

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Big data and unemployment analysis

Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

Internet or "big" data are increasingly measuring the relevant activities of individuals, households, firms and public … experimental settings. Therefore, internet data are extremely useful to study a wide variety of human resource issues including … unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

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Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19

Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021

Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2020

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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK regions in 2005 and 2009. The 'potential surprise function' (Shackle, 1949) clarifying why sometimes promising business choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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