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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Tausch, Arno - 2016
) are characterized by such low rates of female labor force participation. This gap in labor economics research is all the … based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that … Muslim Feminism, and that labor economics does not exclude anymore "the religious factor" from the analytical frameworks …
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Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly
de Pinto, Marco - 2019
In a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry and business stealing, output per firm is too low and the number of competitors excessive, assuming labor productivity to depend on the number of employees only or to be constant. However, a firm can raise the productivity of its workforce by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868832
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Economics and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144934
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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Returns to Islamic Microfinance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
Maazullah, - - 2017
The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to capital, they will be able to generate high returns. The existing evidence on returns to capital is mixed and too limited to substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field...
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A mathematical model of Athenian democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - In: Social choice and welfare 31 (2008) 4, pp. 537-572
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Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists : How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics
Hilmer, Christiana E. - 2012
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty …
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
The past half‐century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner …
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Replication in Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007
This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication … populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several controversies in empirical economics illustrate how and how not to behave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777028