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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 …
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Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization
Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2020
religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … increasingly important phenomenon which has received far less attention is that of spirituality, within/out the context of a … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …
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Substitution between managers and subordinates: evidence from British football
Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...
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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287664
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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...
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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...
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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
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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 …
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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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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