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diversity and minority integration in the European labor markets. Policies to foster the labor market and social integration of …
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This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in …
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. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the …
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overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported …
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the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...
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, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a difference-in-difference methodology and find that religiosity … agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper … who are not. I hypothesize that the increased religiosity results from religious institutions' ability to provide public …
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, religious pluralism, religious freedom, and societal attitudes towards religion are important predictors of religiosity. These …-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …
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Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church … attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of … religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is a …
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