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We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on penalties in football … matches of southern European and northern European football players in the English Premier League. Southern European football … players collect on average more football penalties than their British colleagues and northern European football players …
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We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on penalties in football … matches of southern European and northern European football players in the English Premier League. Southern European football … players collect on average more football penalties than their British colleagues and northern European football players …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042235
This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...
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account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self … differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological … approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision. …
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …
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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
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This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …
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