Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,382
Cover Image
Is there such thing as middle class values? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - 2012
relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282205
Cover Image
Do middle classes bring institutional reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - 2012
-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282529
Cover Image
The Latin American Middle Class: Fragile After All?
Castellani, Francesca; Parent, Gwenn; Zentero, Jannet - 2014
with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314187
Cover Image
Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - 2011
class which is based on sound principles of distributional analysis and derived from income polarization measures. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429319
Cover Image
The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed
Noseleit, Florian - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263877
Cover Image
Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
Cover Image
On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'
Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebiere, Therese - 2015
This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288180
Cover Image
Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
Cover Image
Modelling Bourdieu: An extension of the Axelrod cultural diffusion model
Trigg, Andrew B.; Bertie, Andrew J.; Himmelweit, Susan F. - 2008
The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not fully absorbed by the economics discipline. To address this lacuna, an agent-based model of Bourdieu's social theory is developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288730
Cover Image
Tax burden and migration: A political economy theory and European evidence
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Swagel, Phillip - 1998
higher share of immigrants in the population leads to a lower tax rate on labor income, with the effect statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291925