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on Cultural Economics |
| By: | Bruno S. Frey; Paolo Pamini; Lasse Steiner |
| Abstract: | The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the existing List is highly imbalanced according to countries and continents. Historical reasons, such as historical GDP, population, and number of years of high civilization, have a significant impact on being included on the List. In addition, economic and political factors unrelated to the value of heritage, such as rent seeking by bureaucrats and politicians, the size of the tourist sector, the importance of media, the degree of federalism, and membership in the UN Security Council, influence the composition of the List. |
| Keywords: | Global public goods, world heritage, international organizations, international political economy, culture |
| JEL: | Z11 F5 H87 |
| Date: | 2011–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zur:econwp:001&r=cul |
| By: | Mariya Aleksynska; Yann Algan |
| Abstract: | This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in 16 European countries along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants’ generation, duration of stay, and origin. It suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take place at different speed depending on the outcome in question. While assimilation along some economic outcomes may be correlated with assimilation along some cultural outcomes, such correlations are not systematic, and imply that progress on some dimensions may compensate the lack of progress on other dimensions; and also that a big discrepancy in one dimension is not necessarily a handicap, or an impediment, for assimilation on other grounds. Correlation of immigrants’ outcomes and specific policies aimed at immigrants’ integration are rather disparate, raising further questions regarding both their effectiveness and differentiated effect on various aspects of life. |
| Keywords: | Assimilation; integration; migration policies; Europe |
| JEL: | J1 F22 Z13 |
| Date: | 2010–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cii:cepidt:2010-29&r=cul |