Culture, legal heritage and the regulation of labor

• Main Authors: Ang, James B., Fredriksson, Per G.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Culture; DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development; Individualism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106482; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47948; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2017.11.007
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

According to cross-cultural psychologists, cross-country differences in individualism vs. collectivism constitute an important dimension of cultural variation. Legal-economic theorists argue that legal philosophies such as common law and civil law have developed differently over centuries and have p...