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What happened to God's time? The evolution of secularism and hours of work in America, evidence from religious holidays
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2012
Are American workers less likely to observe a religious holiday now than they were 30 years ago? In this paper I use evidence from religious holidays to explore the evolution of market hours' flexibility and religious observance during the last thirty years. To do so, I take advantage of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282443
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education : Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2005
religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272728
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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 - 2012
several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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Unravelling secularization: an international study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2007
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268893
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013
correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319502
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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
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Religious participation versus shopping: What makes people happier?
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Sander, William - 2010
In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the General Social Survey. The exogenous shift in the cost of religious participation is a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274668
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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286856
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Immigrants and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 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/10010352337