Cultural Values and Productivity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ek, Andreas
• 署名单位: Lund University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/726239
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 295-335
• 关键词: labor-market; diversity; religion; ECONOMICS; GROWTH; work; transmission; personality; DYNAMICS; outcomes

摘要

This paper estimates differences in human capital as country-of-origin-specific labor productivity terms in firm production functions, making it immune to wage discrimination concerns. After accounting for education and experience, estimated human capital varies by a factor of around three between the 90th and the 10th percentile. When I investigate which country-of-origin characteristics most closely correlate with human capital, cultural values are the only robust predictor. This relationship persists among children of migrants. Consistent with a plausible cultural mechanism, individuals whose origin places a high value on autonomy hold a comparative advantage in positions characterized by a low degree of routinization.