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Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...

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Natural analogies among organizational culture models

Dimitrov, Kiril - In: Vanguard Scientific Instruments in Management 5 (2012) 1, pp. 99-125

The current article presents and justifies the wise use of natural analogies in teaching Firm culture at the Universities and in consulting activities in organizations, associated with necessary study of an existing firm culture, before undertaking change management initiatives that are intended...

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Geert Hofstede et al’s Set of National Cultural Dimensions - Popularity and Criticisms

Dimitrov, Kiril - In: Economic Alternatives 8 (2014) 2, pp. 30-60

This article outlines different stages in development of the national culture model, created by Geert Hofstede and his affiliates. This paper reveals and synthesizes the contemporary review of the application spheres of this framework. Numerous applications of the dimensions set are used as a...

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The effect of being Protestant on entrepreneurial choice

Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

This brief research note identifies a causal effect of being Protestant on entrepreneurial choice.

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Literature and Political Economy: An Invitation

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019

Most people think of science and literature as distinct human endeavours. According to received convention, science is mostly about 'mind', whereas literature is largely about 'heart'. Science, goes the argument, is by and large rational, literature primarily emotional. Science is about...

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Impact of Muslim Holy Days on Asian stock markets: An empirical evidence

Ali, Irfan; Akhter, Waheed; Ashraf, Namrah - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-10

This study investigated the impact of Muslim Holy Days on daily stock returns of Asian financial markets for a period … of 2001-2014. These markets include Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The study has tried to isolate the … returns of Asian markets, while all other Holy Days have no effect. Friday is the only Gregorian calendar anomaly, which …

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The comparison of the hedonic, repeat sales, and hybrid models: Evidence from the Chinese paintings market

Wang, Fang; Zheng, Xu - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-19

With the objective of evaluating the accuracy of price index models, we adopt a series of techniques to compares the performances of the hedonic, repeat sales, and hybrid models based on the data from the Chinese most representative painter, Qi Baishi during the period from 2000 to 2016. When...

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,Über Bande gespielt‘. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen neuer Strategien im Verhältnis von Betriebsräten, Arbeitgebern und Medienöffentlichkeit am Beispiel der Regulierung von Leiharbeit...

Bitterwolf, Sebastian; Seeliger, Martin - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 20 (2013) 1, pp. 36-53

Aktuelle Entwicklungen im deutschen System industrieller Beziehungen weisen darauf hin, dass sich das Normalarbeitsverhältnis (gemeinsam mit anderen komplementären Institutionen) derzeit in einem Erosionsprozess befindet. Arbeitnehmervertretungen geraten dadurch unter Druck, so dass sie neue...

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Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two different approaches and data. First, we identify families with a preference for boys by using fertility stopping rules in a population of households whose children attend public...

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Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; Senik, Claudia - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female...

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