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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270236
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397465