This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United States had no national family leave legislationprior to...

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associatedwith better health for children. Wealthier parents may have more advantagedchildren because they have more income to buy health care or because parentalwealth is associated with beneficial behaviours or because...

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

This paper examines the relationship between cultural values, political institutions and government regulation of entry. For this, it couples data for 53 countries from a variety of sources in comparative political economy and cross-cultural psychology. A society's general attitude towards risk...

This research enters new ground by presenting comparative survey evidence on assetmanagers' views and behavior in the United States, Germany, Japan and Thailand.Relying on Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, we find that cultural differencesare most helpful in understanding country differences...

Does evolutionary theory help, for a theory of the firm, or, more widely, a theory oforganization? In this paper I argue that it does, to some but also limited extent.Evolutionary theories of economies, and of culture, have acquired considerablefollowing, but have also been subject to...

We present results from the rst large-scale international surveyon time discounting, conducted in 45 countries. Cross-country varia-tion cannot simply be explained by economic variables such as interestor ination rates. In particular, we nd strong evidence for culturaldierences, as measured by...

Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit kulturellen Unterschieden von Umweltmanagementsystemen (UMS) in Deutschland, Grossbritannien und Schweden. Unter Verwendung des Kulturdimensionen-Konzepts von Geert Hofstede werden mögliche Felder kultureller Unterschiede von...

This paper describes the concept of Safety Culture and its measurement regarding aviation.

This paper deals with culture, CRM and aviation safety. Futhermore it discusses methods to enhance operational safety performance in organisations.