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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013

occupational choice literature on youth employment. …

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

Marcen, Miriam - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to … account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment … by exploiting variation in historical self-employment rates by country of origin of second-generation immigrants. Since …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010

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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