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AAOHN Journal, 2008 This article discusses why occupational health nurses need to be concerned about cultural diversity, but is not intended to be an exhaustive report on the subject.
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Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2017 We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms, values, and attitudes. Using survey data for 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a
Klaus Desmet +2 more
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The Evolution of the Diversity of Cultures [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 The abundant evidence that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa within the past 200 000 years, and dispersed across the world only within the past 100 000 years, provides us with a strong framework in which to consider the evolution of human diversity.
Robert Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr
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Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 Cultural diversity in various forms has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have
Nijkamp, Peter, Poot, Jacques
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, 2020 This chapter provides a brief overview of how cultural diversity has been addressed by cultural economists, in particular in relation to the cultural sector. It first provides a definition of cultural diversity and, secondly, explains how the diversity of cultural identities contributes to team efficiency.
Leela Viswanathan, Sarem Nejad
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Cultural Diversity!? A Roundtable
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 2023 In the context of a roundtable held at the international conference ›Diversity Affects – Troubling Institutions‹ organized by the CRC Affective Societies in May 2021 at Freie Universität Berlin four social and cultural scientists critically discussed the meaningfulness of the term ›cultural diversity‹ and debated about the question whether the term ...
Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt +3 more
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The Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021 This research paper presents the workplace cultural diversity of a developing country (Iraq) and its role to make the position is better than before. This paper will examine the vision of diversity, diversity in an organization, and the cultural diversity in the workplace, and its role to help the organization in its success.
Yazen N. Mahmood, Manaf B. Raewf
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Culture and diversity in knowledge creation [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012 Is the paradise of eortless communication the ideal environment for knowledge creation? Or, can the development of local culture in regions raise knowledge productivity compared to a single region with a unitary culture? In other words, can a real technological increase in the cost of collaboration and the cost of public knowledge ‡ow between regions ...
Masahisa Fujita +2 more
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Tradeoffs and cultural diversity [PDF]
, 2018 AbstractCulture is humanity’s prime adaptation. Which cultural traits contribute to adaptive value, and how they do so, is, however, unclear and debated. Here, we apply an approach from systems biology, known as Pareto task inference (ParTI), to bring a fresh perspective to these questions.
Karin, Omer, Alon, Uri
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 The origin of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries has been underexplored, despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in comparative development, this research empirically demonstrates ...
Oded Galor +2 more
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