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into a social grouping. This is synonymous with religion as defined by Durkheim (1912) and, as a definition of religion, it … may be too wide; but if this definition is adopted, both Confucianism and Marxism are 'religion'. In any case, there are …
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to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contributes positively to …
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Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...
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A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary preferences of...
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process has been the creation in 2010 of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women …, which came into operation on January 1, 2011. UN Women incorporates four existing parts of the UN system dealing with women … structure for the situation of women worldwide from the perspective of international law. Is UN Women simply a bureaucratic …
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This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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earnings. For women the locus of control variable is particularly important. Finally, whereas age ten maths ability is a good …
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family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present … also find large differences in the effects of children on women's hourly wages even after controlling for differences … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We …
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