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Cultural Diversity : A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029152
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Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity : Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level
Tubadji, Annie - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046650
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Engaging in Corruption : The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2013
Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073850
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158060
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism …-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137795
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The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
Konrad, Kai A. - 2009
We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces the government's optimal audit probability and yields higher tax compliance. Second, individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763928
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159947
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984842
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin - 2022
and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084067