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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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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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 …

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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 …

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L'esprit du capitalisme capital étranger et développement

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We consider a model of open economy with a culture of spirit of capitalism. As a first step, we show that the entry of foreign capital flows can support an endogenous economic growth of the host country. Further, our model shows a positive correlation between the entry of foreign direct...

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Article Review on World Bank Report, Optimal Design for a Minimum Wage Policy in Malaysia

Nurrachmi, Rininta; Mad-Ahin, Ashanee; Waeowanjit, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

There are many pros and cons with the implementation of minimum wage in Malaysia, since it is the first time. This article review is to analyze the World Bank report on Malaysian minimum wage policy that will be implemented in 2013. There are strength and weakness on the report. Moreover the...

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Familial Power Relations, Popularity of Female Sterilization and Fertility Decline in Andhra Pradesh: A Cultural Understanding

Singh, Deepti; Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Andhra Pradesh is the first state in India, to reach the replacement level fertility in spite of having high infant and child mortality; high illiteracy and other unfavorable factors. This is an effort to assess such endeavors both theoretically and empirically. Results indicate that though...

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