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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
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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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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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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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.
Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...
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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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Towards new maps of global human values, based on World Values Survey (6) data
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
clearly to be associated with the loss of religion (irrespective of the predominant denomination in a country): the distrust … old religion of Judaism and also Christian Protestantism emerge as the role models for other religions how to combine … religion and the traditions of the Enlightenment. Interestingly enough, also Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Roman Catholicism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240198
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Ethnicity, Religion and Intercultural Education in the Curricula of European Studies
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Our initiative first aims at introducing the topics on ethnicity, religion and intercultural dialogue in the Curricula …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111079
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Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013
ADAM, Elena; TRIȘCAȘ, Floarea Elena; NICOARĂ, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260601
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Etica, economia e principi di giustizia
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The theme of justice in the economics and, in particular, the theme of distributive justice is the subject of heated controversy as distributive justice raises critical questions such as, for example, in the case of migration or the inequality of wages. But the question of justice is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421989
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Measuring social capital with a myograph
Roberto, Censolo; Laila, Craighero; Luciano, Fadiga; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study the behavior of 12 pairs of undergraduate students while they were involved in a simple coordination game requiring motor interaction. Three experimental conditions were defined according to whether a monetary prize was given to both or only one subject, if the couple was in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835965