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The role of medialabs in regional cultural and innovative policy

Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2013

Purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a new cultural institution, "medialab". Media laboratory is an interdisciplinary institution that combines the tasks of scientific, educational, cultural and artistic institutions. They are spaces in which technology and digital media are...

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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...

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Beyond Religion and Culture : The Economic Consequences of the Institutionalization of Sharia Law

Lattanzio, Gabriele - 2019

Religious and cultural practices have major implications for a Country's economic performance. However, it is not clear if the institutionalization of these social norms within a country's legal system causes material economic effects. In this study I show this to be the case. By employing the...

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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics

Gershman, Boris - 2016

This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …

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Paradise postponed : future tense and religiosity

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar; Weber, Clas - 2020

This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We argue that the rewards and punishments that incentivise religious behaviour are less effective for speakers of languages that contain future tense marking. Consistent with this...

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Artificial intelligence and artistic imagination : revisiting the cultural economy of industrial revolutions

Jora, Octavian-Dragomir; Iacob, Mihaela; Roșca, Vlad I.; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 26 (2024) 66, pp. 613-632

services defines and refines us as humans. The economics of culture, notwithstanding its deeply rooted epistemological …

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Chapter 17. Trade and Cultural Diversity

Bisin, Alberto; Verdier, Thierry - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 439-484). 2014

This chapter surveys the recent economic literature on the relationships between globalization and cultural diversity. We first review the different channels through which international integration interacts with cultural diversity across individuals, communities, and nations. We then present...

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Mismatches between actual and preferred work time : empirical evidence of hours constraints in 21 countries

Otterbach, Steffen - 2009

This paper analyzes the discrepancy between actual and desired working hours in a multinational setting. Using the latest data of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) with a focus on work orientations hours constraints in 21 heterogeneous countries are analyzed. One major finding is...

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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...

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