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Cultural Capital and Heritage

EXPLAINING VARIATION IN WORK ETHIC IN EUROPE

Religious heritage rather than modernisation, the welfare state and communism

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Pages 268-289 | Received 10 May 2011, Accepted 16 Aug 2012, Published online: 05 Oct 2012

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