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Impact of cultural diversity on wages and job satisfaction in England
Longhi, Simonetta - 2011
This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates for England to analyse the impact of cultural diversity on individual wages and on different aspects of job satisfaction. Do people living in more diverse areas have higher wages and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288907
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Deflation and Relative Prices: Evidence from Japan and Hong Kong
Gerlach, Stefan; Kugler, Peter - 2007
We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995), which implies that the impact of price dispersion on inflation should differ between inflation and deflation episodes, using data for Japan and Hong Kong. We use a random crosssection sample split when calculating the moments of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390613
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Do active innovation policies matter? Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs
Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2008
Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263517
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Academia-industry linkages and the role of active innovation policies: firm-level evidence in Hong Kong
Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2009
This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main academia-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275672
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Comparative analysis of Finno-Sinic management: In-depth study of the dimensions of cross-cultural friction and synergy in management of Finnish firms in Hong Kong
Koivisto, Jussi V.; Lampinen, Matti - 2002
This study focuses on how cross-cultural synergy and friction emerge in Finno-Sinic management communication, decision-making and organisation empowerment. The paper is based on a qualitative methodology and in-depth interviews with Finnish and Chinese subjects in Finnish companies in Hong Kong....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285084
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Laws and norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...
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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada
Cadsby, C. Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001
contributions, neither culture nor gender has any significant impact on the equilibrium selected, the amount contributed or the … provision success rate. Nonetheless, culture and gender do affect behavior. Japanese females coordinate significantly less …
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586050
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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267568
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010
innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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