Social culture and economic performance

The connection between obtaining higher paying jobs and undertaking some se emingly irrelevant activity is interpreted as "social culture. " In the con text of a society trying to adopt a new technology, I show that by allowing the firms to give preferential treatment to workers based on some "cultura l activity, " the society can partially, overcome an informational free-rid ing problenz. Therefore, social culture may affect the economic performance by altering the effective production technology of the economy.