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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767
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The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Religious Minorities from the Former Holy Roman Empire
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We propose a new methodology for identifying the causal effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Our quasi-experimental research design exploits religious minorities' strong attachment to religious ethics and the exogenous historical determination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111887
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Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
religion on fatalistic beliefs seem to be an important element determining fatalistic tendencies. However there are not large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258730
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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension … opportunities and discrimination? Chapter 3 investigates the effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111800
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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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O Potencial da Economia da Cultura no Brasil
David, Leticia Scretas; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Since the nineties culture is seen also as a vector of development of an economy. "Cultural Economics", is a term that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111064
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The Religious and Anthropological Perspectives of Development and Poverty
Attia, Sayed Moawad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the role of both religion and anthropology in development and accordingly reducing poverty. Within … this introduction I intend to discuss the reason invited me to handle this problem. This reason is that I see both religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078685
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Religious Extremism, Clubs, and Civil Liberties: A Model of Religious Populations
Makowsky, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper extends the club model of religion to better account for observed patterns of extremism. We adapt existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616838
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Analysis of Gender Disparity in Meghalaya by Various Types of Composite Indices
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Subjugation of women in certain spheres of life is very common in the patriarchal societies and it has a long history. In India, women have little social or economic independence. They are treated inequitably at home as much as at the workplace outside. Perhaps, it is so for the Indian society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621444