Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,173
Cover Image
Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines
Usman-Laput, Lea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
psycho-social trauma of the war and their portrayal of the role of “the other” culture as co-survivors of war. Among the …-aged, “prudence” and tact in their narratives revealed a tendency to rationalize and to show sympathy towards “the other” culture … perceptions. Transitions in the subjective realities of the war survivors are apparent across culture and age. Opposing views are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401312
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Rethinking the Culture - Economy Dialectic
Brons, Lajos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of … just that. The concepts of "culture" and "economy" (and related concepts) and the (assumed) relationships therebetween are … are partly based on a measurement of Dutch regional culture. However, it appeared that most theories of the CED are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836869
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258730
Cover Image
Why Inventions Occurred in Some Countries and Not in Others?
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The reasons why inventions that shaped industrial revolutions, occurred in the UK and in the USA, have been suggested by economic historians. For the first time,we access the determinants of more than a hundred inventions around the world, explaining why they occurred in a given country and why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258812
Cover Image
Human Capital and Genetic Diversity
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The determinants of human capital have been studied sparsely in the literature. Although there is a huge literature on the determinants of schooling linked with the quality of schooling, there are not many contributions that explore the deep determinants of investment in, quantity and quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108070
Cover Image
The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Development Reflected by Nighttime Light Intensity
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research establishes that migratory distance from the cradle of anatomically modern humans in East Africa and its effect on the distribution of genetic diversity across countries has a hump-shaped effect on nighttime light intensity per capita as observed by satellites, reflecting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109381
Cover Image
Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
Cover Image
La demografia in Europa e in Us. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110362