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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion … sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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Immigrants and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760008
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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568286
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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565201
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
minorities and the exogenous historical determination of the geographical distribution of religious minorities in Europe. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371895
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
share of "no religion" individuals (in Europe and elsewhere) and the large influx of immigrants – who tend to be more …This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … "no religion" made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701329
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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744664
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The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163478
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959740
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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566435