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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....
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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 …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … is whether modernization without spiritual values in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
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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
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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010
empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … innovation. …
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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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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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Innovation and employment: a survey
Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...
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