indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants' religiosity serves as a 'bridge' or a 'buffer' in the process of … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function … of a buffer and of a 'balm for the soul'. There is an extensive literature on the 'bridge versus buffer' (or 'bridge …

indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants' religiosity serves as a bridge or a buffer in the process of … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function … of a buffer and of a balm for the soul. There is an extensive literature on the bridge versus buffer (or bridge versus …

of the fixed link between Denmark and Sweden in 2000 (The Oresund Bridge) as a quasi-natural experiment. Our Synthetic … absence of the bridge. Evaluating actual trade against its synthetic counterpart for the period 2001-2008 shows that Danish …-Swedish trade was 24.6% larger than it would have been in the absence of the bridge using our preferred specification. The result is …