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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293520
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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289012
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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2012
The empirical relation between happiness and religiosity is considered from the perspective of basic utility theory. An unbalanced cross-country panel data set is used to study whether religiosity can be considered as a substitute in the happiness function, which itself is held to be a proxy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356040
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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909543
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Religiosity as a Determinant of Happiness
Gundlach, Erich - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126690
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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018
Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper charts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880336
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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality
Nieva, Ricardo - 2020
We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203665
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Religion, Income Inequality, and the Size of the Government
Elgin, Ceyhun - 2013
countries. Religion requires that individuals make financial sacrifices and this leads the religious to prefer making their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094295
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Einstellungen und Verhalten der deutschen Bevölkerung : Analysen mit dem ALLBUS
Siegers, Pascal (ed.); Schulz, Sonja (ed.);  … - 2019
Die Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) gehört zu den wichtigsten Datenquellen, um den sozialen Wandel in der Bundesrepublik seit 1980 zu untersuchen. Die Beiträge zum Band untersuchen verschiedene Themen anhand der reichen Datenquellen aus dem ALLBUS und reihen sich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875085
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The corruption-income inequality trap : a study of Asian countries
Dwiputri, Inayati Nuraini; Arsyad, Lincolin; Pradiptyo, … - 2018
The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930500