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from Syria by highlighting the degree of development of the country before the policy crisis in 2011. An attempt was also …
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of the presence of significant gravity effects of culture. The paper seeks to highlight three new research issues: (i … different immigrant groups; and (iii) the full culture-based development (CBD) mechanism of a joint cultural impact on the …
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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 identify the causal effect of a reduction in military personnel on a number of socioeconomic indicators within the periphery of the military base. The base realignments and closures (BRACs) within the German armed forces is an exogenous source of variation that allows for the estimation of...
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This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...
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The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as reflected in voter turnout. It focuses on Italy, where municipal voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less...
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The choice of centralizing tourism policies at the national level or, on the contrary, of decentralizing them at the local level is widely discussed in the literature, which highlights the related pros and cons. In fact, the simultaneous role of originator and attractor of tourism of each...
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selected determining factors. Among the various parameters having been proposed as qol determinants, leisure and culture issues …, participation in social life and creativity. A special dimension of the relationship connecting leisure, culture and qol which is … point of view, urban infrastructure concerning leisure activities and culture, constitute a significant determinant for the …
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creative expression, according to a peculiar model anchored on freeware and hacker culture, and receiving the support of the …
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Building on work funded by the ESPON 2013 Program, the paper analyses the regional trajectories of development of a "creative workforce" among its active population against regional economic growth, measured by changes in per capita GDP over the period 2001-2008 in 317 NUTS2 regions of the ESPON...
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