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Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards …. This contribution focuses on religion's possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious … religions, religious competition or the proximity between religion and the state. The empirical test makes use of the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123778
Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards …. This contribution focuses on religion’s possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious … religions, religious competition or the proximity between religion and the state. The empirical test makes use of the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129748
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257344
This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …
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This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...
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This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan …
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central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056956
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057050
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926056
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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