International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 37 Issue 2

Global shifts: Changing job quality and job satisfaction determinants in socialist and post‐socialist Hungary

Jonathan H. Westover

The purpose of this paper is to extend Handel's intrinsic and extrinsic framework for understanding job characteristics and job satisfaction to the worker experience in socialist…

FDI and the change of the Chinese culture

Lu Jiang, Qiangbing Chen, Yali Liu

In many cross‐cultural management studies, culture and cultural differences across nations typically are assumed to be constant. The focus is on the impact of culture on other…

Government regulation of religion and investments in human and physical capital: Religion versus secularism

Giuseppina Autiero, Concetto Paolo Vinci

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal link between government regulation of religion and the choice of investing in human and physical capital.

Support for democracy in the Fiji Islands: does schooling matter?

Neelesh Gounder, Mahendra Reddy, Biman Chand Prasad

Education is highly regarded as having a central influence on individuals' understanding and backing of democracy, but whether this occurs in young and small democratic states…

Risks in the labor market and social insurance preferences: Germany and the USA

Anil Duman

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to look at the link between labor market risks and social insurance demands by taking occupational unemployment rates, and specificity of…