Relationship Between Country Income And View Toward Work

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between income and the view toward work.  That is, countries are compared based on per capita income and survey results showing how work is viewed.  The hypothesis is that high income countries value work more than low income countries.  Furthermore, it is hypothesized that low income countries value something, other than work, more than high income countries.  The reasoning is that rich countries are rich because they value work and poor countries are poor because they value something else more than work.  Per capita income data is taken from the World Bank.  The data on values is taken from the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey (WVS/EVS).