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Geschlechterunterschiede in islamischer Religiosität und Geschlechterrollenwerten: Ein Vergleich der Zusammenhänge am Beispiel der türkischen und marokkanischen zweiten Generation...
Scheible, Jana Anne; Fleischmann, Fenella - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2011
In Anlehnung an die Debatte über den Einfluss von (islamischer) Religiosität auf Geschlechterrollenwerte, untersucht dieser Beitrag den Zusammenhang zwischen Religiosität und Geschlechterrollenwerten bei Männern und Frauen der türkischen und marokkanischen zweiten Generation in Belgien....
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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822098
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822804
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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study
Neuman, Shoshana; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822906
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Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market; Were Evangelicals Left Behind?
Crowe, Christopher W. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825622
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Religion & Economic Growth and Development
Nath, Sushmit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
explain the relationship between religion and growth. I have also tried to present Adam Smith's view on the subject and how it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835958