The effects of societal culture attributes on regional disparity

Miki Malul, Amir Shoham and Leon Zolotoy

International Journal of Social Economics, 2011, vol. 38, issue 7, 649-661

Abstract: Purpose - The main goal of this paper is to analyze the effects of societal culture attributes on regional disparity. Design/methodology/approach - This paper uses cross‐country data to identify the variables that determine the regional disparity and the gap between the richest and poorest regions in the economy. Findings - The most interesting result of this study is that there exists a significant role played by societal cultural differences in the explanation of the regional disparity and the gap between rich and poor regions. Originality/value - As far as we know, this paper makes the first attempt to explain inter‐regional disparity according to culture attributes. We estimate that cultural variables add about 5 percent to the explanation of the variation of the indices of inequality between regions.

Keywords: Regional disparity; Globe score; Culture (sociology); Socio‐economic regions; Economic disequilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1108/03068291111139267

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