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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
religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among women of any age since 1997. For non-OECD-Europe, we find … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307445
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify … populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while in the United States the … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331891
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity - A comparative study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify … populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while in the United States the … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336000
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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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Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the Wedding Venue Business: Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Germany and Austria
Carol, Sarah; Kuipers, Coco; Koesling, Philipp; … - In: Social Problems (2021) Advance Articles, pp. --
We add to the current debate on ethno-religious discrimination by studying to what extent discrimination in the wedding venue business is based on religious or ethnic grounds. Do the two reinforce each other? Does the explicit mentioning of a non-religious wedding help to reduce ethnic...
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481582
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Consumer revolution in north‐western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto‐industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
Bovenkerk, Henning; Fertig, Christine - In: The Economic History Review 76 (2022) 2, pp. 551-574
countries of England and the Netherlands and the remaining parts of Europe, which were more stagnant. We contribute to this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503416
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Pearls are a girl's best friends: nostalgia and its discontents in the life-stories of two Georgian women
Sideri, Eleni - In: IBSU Scientific Journal (IBSUSJ) 3 (2009) 1, pp. 97-112
Natela remembers her femininity as an expression of a long Georgian national tradition that seems to be threatened by a new, market-oriented order. On the contrary, Dela is determined to take advantage of the emerging need for luxury goods and fashion trends among the female consumers in modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286229
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
share of no religion individuals (in Europe and elsewhere) and the large influx of immigrants - who tend to be more …This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … no religion made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate with …
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