The «second generation» born in Switzerland of for¬ eign Citizens is estimated at 6.8% of the total popula¬ tion, based on Population Census data from 2000 (Mey et al. 2005). Together, the first and the second gener¬ ation of «foreign origin» make up 27% of the Swiss population, 70% of which are foreign Citizens. One quarter of the first (24%) and one third (32%) of the second generation has ac...

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother’s side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more developed countries suggests a stronger transmission of trust, but the heterogeneity in ancestry dissip...

Beliefs about whether effort pays off govern some of the most fundamental choices individual make. This paper exploit the “lost generation” during China’s Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they are transmitted across generations, how they affect behaviors. During the Cultural Revolution, China’s college admission system based on entrance exams was suspende...

The aim of this research, is to provide empirical data to either support or challenge the view that subculture has an impact on how sex appeal in advertising is perceived. It looks at young females of two specific British subcultural groups, Anglo-Saxon and Asian-Islamic British. It reveals that there are differences in the perception of sex appeal, since the Asian-Islamic British have a rather...

Until 1990 there was a dearth of research on creativity/innovation in the jield of IS. In that year, the HICSS mini-track on Creativity/Innovation in IS Organizations was initiated The mini-track Call For Papers specified a framework for research that generated 32 papers, covering the full spectrum of IS activity. This paper proposes a second generation framework for research, to stimulate more...