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Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...
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In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...
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This study investigates the realisation of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach …. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and … to construct a typology of fertility intentions and outcomes, and not only to identify common patterns but also different …
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Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …
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Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to … explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter … causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether …
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Simon Szreter's book "Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940" argues that social and economic class fails … to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility as reported in the 1911 census of England and Wales … about the causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have …
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This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on average, religiosity of immigrants is...
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This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
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This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291046