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Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims … and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having …- Muslim just arrived in the country. Furthermore, Muslims seem to follow a different integration pattern than other ethnic and …
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. Finally, the influence of negative discourses on Islam and Muslims are discussed. … study has been to clarify and examine young people’s attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these … controlling for several background variables simultaneously, many variables affect the attitude towards Muslims. The country of …
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's propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their … tendency to vote for Islamic parties and education does not influence the propensity to cast a vote in national elections for …
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Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative …; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower women; and hence (3) Muslim communities will underperform economically …
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This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most important day of Ramadan (the Night of Power) and a day...
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Indonesia as a case in point to classify communities strictly adhering to traditional adat laws and Islamic religion as … that, even after controlling for other variables, traditional collectivist communities strongly adhering to adat and Islam …
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of … toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are … driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
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