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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach
Vézina, Brigitte - 2020
From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...
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Working in spite of high taxes: On the role of culture in explaining high employment in the Nordic Countries
Hall, Axel - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306482
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Cultural identity, mobility, and decentralization
Schild, Christopher-Johannes; Wrede, Matthias - 2010
Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ('social capital'). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...
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The dynamics of continuous cultural traits in social networks
Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Pichler, Michael M. - 2011
We consider an OLG model (of a socialization process) where continuous traits are transmitted from an adult generation to the children. A weighted social network describes how children are influenced not only by their parents but also by other role models within the society. Parents can invest...
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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282528
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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288286
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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update
Potrafke, Niklas - 2012
democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam … and democracy. In his comment on my study, Hanusch indicates that he believes I was using the POLITY IV index. He has not …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch …
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Terror Per Capita
Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017
terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615890
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The Female Vote and the Rise of AKP in Turkey
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015
Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...
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Twenty years of political transition
Treisman, Daniel - 2010
towards democracy. Variation across post-communist countries in the degree of democracy twenty years after the start of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280128