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Cultural and Social Determinants of Working Conditions in Europe

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A continent wide perspective, based on a secondary analysis of data provided by European Union institutions is the point of departure of the study reported in this paper. National Dimensions of Culture proposed by Gert Hofstede are correlated with country by country results of the 7th European Social Survey (2014). This informs on cultural determinants of the European Social Dimensions reported on the ESS. Moreover, considering data from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey (2015), working conditions, on a country by country basis as well, are further considered and analyzed from the perspective of national cultural dimensions and from the perspective of social dimensions. This multiple pronged study of association unveils interesting associations between selected dimensions of culture and working conditions, as well as between selected dimensions of national culture and social dimensions, and also, between social dimensions and working conditions, taking the European country as a unit of analysis.

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The current study was funded in part by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Project UID/EMS/00151/2013 C-MAST.

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  1. Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Human Technology Group, Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technology, Universidade da Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal

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Coelho, D.A. (2018). Cultural and Social Determinants of Working Conditions in Europe. In: Hoffman, M. (eds) Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60747-4_8

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