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Engaging in Corruption : The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2013

Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and...

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

Badaoui, Eliane - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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Joblessness and Perceptions About the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alesina, Alberto - 2010

first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior …

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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time : The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2012

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

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