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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 32-40
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New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment
Skriabikova, Olga J.; Dohmen, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 176-184
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Local electoral rules and political participation
Barone, Guglielmo; De Blasio, Guido - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548163
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The complex relationship between leisure, culture and tourism from the perspective of the quality of urban life : European Regional Science Association, 52nd European Congress, Bra...
Psatha, Eva; Deffner, Alex - 2012
Defining quality of life (qol) at personal or societal level is a difficult process which largely depends on the selected determining factors. Among the various parameters having been proposed as qol determinants, leisure and culture issues have only recently found their place, as they had long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508124
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Creativity in fashion design in Slovakia : the case study of the Bratislava region
Pástor, Rudolf; Parízková, Jana - 2013
This paper is focused on creativity in fashion design in Slovakia. The fashion design in Bratislava region was selected as one of the creative industry for our research. The aim of the paper is to analyze creativity and innovation activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514672
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Branding Brazilian slums through "freeware" cultural production : the case of Rio de Janeiro
Russo, Antonio Paolo - 2012
This paper reflects on a "cultural industry model" with important potential for local development, which is the network of independent cultural producers of Brazilian slums. The landscape of favelas is unique: plagued by poverty and crime, they have come to encapsulate the worst aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516065
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The nexus between creative workforce and economic development : looking for the causal relation
Russo, Antonio Paolo; Domínguez, Alan Quaglieri; … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516069
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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : empirical evidence for Germany
Akkemik, Kucik Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - 2012
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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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565957
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Institutions, civil society, trust and quality of life : a social capital- and social identity-based approach : evidence from the Russian Federation
Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Šķilters, Jurǵis - 2014
civic engagement and trust with the support of social psychology theories (in particular, social identity theory). In detail … empowerment on the one hand, and individual engagement and trust in the society and civil identity on the other; it also focuses … between perceptions of civil society empowerment, trust towards institutions, civic engagement, trust and tolerance in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494482