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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...

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Impact of income redistribution on middle class households : a cross-country comparison based on the LIS data

Bigot, Régis; Daudey, Emilie; Muller, Jörg; Osier, … - 2014

In the context of economic and financial difficulties, the debate over the effect of income taxation and redistribution has come back in most of the European countries. In this paper, we use the LIS data to examine the impact of income redistribution on middle class households from a...

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The expanding middle : the exploding world middle class and falling global inequality

Wilson, Dominic; Dragusanu, Raluca - 2008

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The role of middle class in economic development : what do cross-country data show?

Chun, Natalie; Hasan, Rana; Rahman, Muhammad Habibur; … - In: Review of development economics 21 (2017) 2, pp. 404-424

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Prekäre Mittel? : Sozialstaat und Mittelschicht im internationalen Vergleich

Dallinger, Ursula - In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 57 (2011) 1, pp. 83-110

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Culture's Consequences : International Differences in Work-Related Values

Lonner, Walter J.; Berry, John W.; Hofstede, Geert - 2010

Culture influences both individual behavior and how businesses operate. Those working in both the business and policy arenas must understand other cultures and avoid ethnocentrism. Culture is defined as the "collective programming of the mind"; in the modern context it exists within national...

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Chapter 20. National Culture as Value Orientations: Consequences of Value Differences and Cultural Distance

Schwartz, Shalom H. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 547-586). 2014

permits comparison of national cultures with one another on each orientation. It reveals eight distinct world cultural regions … of the cultural map, I discuss the distinctive cultural profiles of each world cultural region. The final third of the … affects the flow of investment around the world. The current approach differs from well-known theories of cultural dimensions …

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Values and Support for Immigration : A Cross-Country Comparison

Davidov, Eldad - 2012

In this article, we estimate and compare the effects of two value dimensions taken from the theory of basic human values—namely, self-transcendence and conservation—on attitudes toward immigration in 19 countries. Data from the first wave (2002–03) of the European Social Survey (ESS) is...

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Fremde Welt : nur eine Minderheit teilt Deutschlands "Werte"

Menkhoff, Lukas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 8, pp. 546-552

Die Länder der Welt bedürfen der Kooperation, um globale Probleme zu lösen. Zudem hatDeutschland als stark …. Vorallem liegt Deutschland mit seinen Wertvorstellungen nicht etwa im Schwerpunkt der Welt, sonderneher am Rand. Dies zieht …Countries in the world need cooperation to solve global problems, and Germany with its strongly outward …

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Corruption and entrepreneurship : how formal and informal institutions shape small firm behavior in transition and mature market economies

Tonoyan, Vartuhí; Strohmeyer, Robert; Habib, Mohsin; … - In: Entrepreneurship, theory and practice : ET & P 34 (2010) 5, pp. 803-831

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