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We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of lin-guistic, religious,...
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We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
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-French language border within Switzerland. We find that students in the French-speaking area have a lower level of financial literacy … than students in the German-speaking area. The difference in financial literacy across the language groups is stronger … literacy is mainly related to systematic differences in financial socialisation across the language groups. Students in the …
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using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada: waves 1-3. Learning, rather than sorting into co …
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This book explores test adaptation, a scientific and professional activity now spanning all of the social and behavioural sciences. Adapting tests to various linguistic and cultural contexts is a critical process in today's globalized world, and requires a combination of knowledge and skills...
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: Singapore's nation branding through language policy: 'Commercial nationalism' and internal tensions -- Luke Lu<BR>Chapter 8 … and the inversion of globalization -- Rebecca Carlson<BR>Chapter 13: Translation, transliteration, and translingualization …"Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted …
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creativity /Modestus N. Onyeaghalaji --Culture misrepresentation through language attitudes : study of Francophone Cameroonian …
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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