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Gender and social mobility : exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation
Luke, Nancy - 2019
intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161273
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Cultures and innovation of African poor : common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? ; on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and black diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2006
formal and informal sector, within the informal sector, according to class, gender or religion, and between different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905228
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Effects of employee social capital on wage satisfaction, job satisfaction and organizational commitment
Hauser, Christoph - 2015
The article proposes that basic social attitudes and associational networks of employees influence their interaction with coworkers and managers at the workplace and thereby also shape work attitudes and behavior. Two terms are introduced to analyze this hypothesis: Civic Social Capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391680
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The distribution of individual conformity under social pressure across societies
Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014 - This version December 2013
This paper studies the aggregate distribution of declared opin- ions and behavior when heterogeneous individuals make the trade- off between being true to their private opinions and conforming to an endogenous social norm. The model sheds light on how various punishment regimes induce conformity...
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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524858
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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?
Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526633
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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2016
Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457730
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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages
Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588923
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Contact vs. information : what shapes attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from an experiment in schools
Florio, Erminia - 2020
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306401
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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594707