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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020

This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence … economic, family, and societal arrangements, we construct and validate an ethnic-based gender inequality index. We control for … a large set of fixed effects and find empirical support for two interrelated hypotheses. First, gender-unequal armed …

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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas

Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015

territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …

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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015

We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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The role of culture on self-employment

Marcén, 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...

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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states

Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011

Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …

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Effects of ethnic advertising on consumers of minority and majority groups : the moderating effect of humor

Rößner, Anna; Kämmerer, Maren; Eisend, Martin - In: International journal of advertising : the quarterly … 36 (2017) 1, pp. 190-205

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A quadripartite approach to analysing young British South Asian adults' dual cultural identity

Dey, Bidit Lal; Balmer, John M.T.; Pandit, Ameet; … - In: Journal of marketing management : MM 33 (2017) 9/10, pp. 789-816

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Effects of cultural diversity on individual establishments

Brunow, Stephan; Blien, Uwe - 2011

International immigration affects the degree of cultural diversity present in a labour force. This paper focuses on the consequences of immigration with respect to the level of cultural diversity by estimating employment functions for individual establishments. The theory behind the empirical...

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Subaltern culture and happiness in tribal communities of West Bengal

Chakraborty, Bidisha; Basak, Dedipya - In: Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development …, (pp. 165-188). 2023

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