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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272283
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Clash of Cultures : Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2021
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317401
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Historical antisemitism, ethnic specialization, and financial development
D'Acunto, Francesco; Prokopczuk, Marcel; Weber, Michael - 2017
For centuries, Jews in Europe have specialized in financial services. At the same time, they have been the victims of historical antisemitism on the part of the Christian majority. We find that present-day financial development is lower in German counties where historical antisemitism was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721571
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education : Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2005
religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272728
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Roots of tolerance among second-generation immigrants
Berggren, Niclas; Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - In: Journal of institutional economics 15 (2019) 6, pp. 999-1016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434868
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Culture or context? : revisiting the role of culture in shaping economic outcomes
Adnan, Wifag - 2019
researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126171
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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Racial group affinity and religious giving : evidence from congregation-level panel data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2014
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464886
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Islamic Constitutions and Religious Minorities
Gouda, Moamen - 2018
This study examines the effect of formal institutions, specifically constitutional provisions, on minority discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important constraint in the legislative process experience more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907370