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Do multinationals transfer culture? : evidence on female employment in China

Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - 2017

firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to …We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing … raises China's aggregate total factor productivity by 5%, of which spillovers from multinationals account for 19%. …

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Slotting allowances and manufacturers' retail sales effort

Foros, Øystein (contributor); Kind, Hans Jarle (contributor) - 2008

A manufacturer's incentives to undertake non-contractible investments depend on the profit margin on her sales to the retailer, and slotting allowances can facilitate such incentives by increasing unit wholesale prices. At first glance, it is tempting to conclude that slotting allowances should...

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Do slotting allowances harm retail competition?

Foros, Øystein (contributor); Kind, Hans Jarle (contributor) - 2006

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Measuring tight and loose cultures across NUTS-2 regions : the regional index of looseness

Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore - 2023

This investigation quantifies the levels of cultural tightness and looseness prevalent in European societies, focusing on NUTS-2 regional divisions. Cultural dynamics occupy a pivotal role in shaping individual decision-making, particularly when addressing global risks like pandemics,...

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Roots of cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2024

This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures—encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...

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Multigenerational transmission of culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …

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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state

Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …

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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel … - 2023 - Original version: April 2023, this version: May 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the ﬁrst evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...

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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict

Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023

Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...

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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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