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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249399
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Irrigation and culture : gender roles and women's rights
Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
autocracy and a culture of collectivism. These are both associated with weaker female property rights. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297216
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Gender norms and women's decision to work: evidence from Japan
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2021
Using individual-level data from the National Family Research of Japan Survey (1999, 2004 and 2009) and exploiting variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and prefecture, we find that an increase in the share of...
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493318
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495148
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Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 6, Ländliche Arbeitsmärkte: Chancen für Frauen - Frauen als Chance
Tuitjer, Gesine - 2016
This paper aims at analyzing the local gender culture and its impact on the position of women between work and care …, such as local labor markets and administration, with employers as well as women and mothers, the local gender culture is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754625
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Culture of origin, parenting, and household labor supply
Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024
This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543831
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Culture : an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility a verification and reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009)
Gay, Victor - In: Journal of comments and replications in economics 2 (2023), pp. 1-15
estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014434374
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Culture: an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility : a verification and reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (2009)
Gay, Victor - 2023
estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441691
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The roots of low European employment : family culture?
Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005
. This paper argues that family labor supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … shaped by national features. We also document that cross-country differences in family culture cause cross … fall in the employment rates of young and older people. -- employment rate ; culture ; family attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003155692