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thereby also perhaps their influence on the culture world: The ever-increasing proportion of financial decisions made in so … Finanzzentren der Welt in immer stärkerem Wettbewerb zueinander stehen, und Kultur ist ein bestimmendes Element der …At the turn of the century, the role of culture in society is changing. One facet of this change is the relation …
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We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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, 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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is included to control for social effects. Data from 28 countries, world-wide, are used to test the hypotheses, based on … intersecting data available from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources. Findings …
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innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
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emigration rates from all over the world to 30 OECD destinations across a plethora of specifications. For people from an origin …
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postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …
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What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
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