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We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Tourism has a wide range of impacts on the economy, the natural environment and the people living in a destination. In … the context of poor, rural societies, many scholars have emphasized the positive impacts of tourism on local economic … growth. Concern has been voiced, however, about the social and cultural impacts of tourism due to observed changes in local …
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This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...
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identified localities can be described along lifestyle-specific differentiation criteria. When the respective locations are … regarded more closely, indications for a close fit between the theoretically implicated assumptions regarding lifestyle types …
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advertising campaigns showing different lifestyle themes. …
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operationalization of these new perspectives in regionallabour supply modelling: the life-style concept.Life-style is the relative … importance to different careers and can be considered as a latent variable. Life-style groupsare formed based on similar life … back-ground characteristics of persons are assumed todetermine the life-style category someone belongs to.In this paper a …
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Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...
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We invite you to read the Special Issue on business models in tourism, in the context of considering the principles of … their business models. This also happens in the tourism business. The SARS-COV2 virus pandemic has increased the need for … presented needs, aims to use the concept of business models and sustainability business models in the context of a tourism …
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greater financial health of Japanese households is due more to culture or to government policies, institutions, and other non … explained much better by non-cultural factors than by culture. …
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What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
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