Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 229
Cover Image
Job Protection : The Macho Hypothesis
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - 2004
This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that Catholics, Muslims and Orthodoxs are more likely to support such "macho values" than Protestants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261941
Cover Image
Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261982
Cover Image
Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain
Adsera, Alicia - 2004
. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262142
Cover Image
Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
Cover Image
Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268511
Cover Image
Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268735
Cover Image
On the origin of the family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269437
Cover Image
The cult of Theoi: Economic uncertainty and religion
Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - 2010
Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269858
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2003
An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272721