Values beliefs and economic behaviors: a regional approach

• Author(s): Graça, João Carlos ; Lopes, João Carlos ; Niza, Cláudia
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6321
• Origin: Repositório da UTL
• Subject(s): Values; Beliefs; Economic behaviours; Portuguese regions
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English

Description

The purpose of this paper is to identify relationships between value orientations, beliefs and economic behaviors of agents, on one side, and differences between levels of economic development, on the other. Empirical analysis is based on a sample of Portuguese municipalities and correspondent parishes, organized in groups set by an urban-versus-rural typology and according to levels of development as measured by GDP per capita. Different value orientations, beliefs and behaviors were identified. Four clusters were thereby considered, generically correspondent to “stabilization”, “economic nationalism”, “entrepreneurship” and “consumerism”. These clusters are related to the spatial dimensions considered.