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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2024–12–16
three papers chosen by Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Zhang Na (City University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Author-2-Name: Sharul Azim Sharudin Author-2-Workplace-Name: City University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Author-3-Name: Author-3-Workplace-Name: Author-4-Name: Author-4-Workplace-Name: Author-5-Name: Author-5-Workplace-Name: Author-6-Name: Author-6-Workplace-Name: Author-7-Name: Author-7-Workplace-Name: Author-8-Name: Author-8-Workplace-Name:) |
| Abstract: | "Objective - Miao embroidery is vital to Miao culture, representing their national identity through its patterns and colours. However, in the face of globalization and the digital age, there is an urgent need to combine tradition with modern technology to innovate and preserve Miao embroidery. Methodology - In this study, we explored the artistic characteristics of Miao embroidery by digital means and used computer design tools to refine the pattern elements and colour genes. Research methods combine qualitative and quantitative analysis, including phenomenology, ethnographic research, content analysis, questionnaires, image and colour analysis, etc. Findings - Through computer graphics software, pattern colour extraction, and innovation are realized, the integration of traditional culture and modern design is promoted, and a new way is provided for the digital protection and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. Novelty - The research enhances the vitality and influence of Miao embroidery in global cultural diversity and includes case studies and practices of digitized intangible cultural heritage. Type of Paper - Empirical" |
| Keywords: | Guizhou Miao embroidery; cultural innovation; qualitative and quantitative analysis; digitized intangible cultural heritage |
| JEL: | O10 O19 O33 |
| Date: | 2024–09–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gtr:gatrjs:jber250 |
| By: | Tobias Grohmann (University of Groningen and GLO) |
| Abstract: | Theory suggests that cultural similarity of countries increases migration flows between them. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration and tests this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time-varying similarity variables in a panel of international and domestic migration flows (>200 countries, 1990–2019, 5-year in- tervals) and estimate a theory-consistent structural gravity model with origin-year, destination-year, and corridor fixed effects. The results do not show the hypothesized positive effect of cultural similarity on migration. Instead, religious similarity has a significant nega- tive effect on migration, while WVS-based attitudinal similarities regarding individualism, indulgence, and trust are insignificant. Additional results suggest that cultural selection and sorting can explain these findings, where migrants are attracted by destinations that are cul- turally similar to their personal cultural beliefs rather than the average cultural beliefs of their home country. Results of a two-stage fixed effects (TSFE) procedure and a gravity-specific matching estimator, which both allow the estimation of time-invariant similarity variables, confirm that the relationship between cultural similarity and migration is more nuanced than previously thought. |
| Keywords: | international migration, culture, gravity model of migration |
| JEL: | F22 O15 Z10 |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ost:wpaper:404 |
| By: | Vasiliki Fouka; Theo Serlin |
| Abstract: | How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial Revolution, a period characterized by the development of new industries and declines in transportation and communication costs. Using microdata on individuals’ names and migration decisions, we quantify identity change and its variation across space. We develop and estimate a quantitative spatial model in which migration and cultural identities are inter-dependent. Different components of economic modernization had different effects on identity change. Falling migration costs homogenized peripheral regions. In contrast, industrial development led to heterogeneity, increasing the overall prevalence of the culture of London, while also creating local identity holdouts by reducing out-migration from industrializing peripheries. Modernization promotes both national identities and persistent local identities in peripheral regions that industrialize. |
| Keywords: | migration, identity, industrialization |
| JEL: | J61 N33 N63 Z10 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11441 |