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Islamic constitutions and religious minorities

Gouda, Moamen; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018 - This version: 20 November 2018

discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important … constraint in the legislative process experience more discrimination against minorities than other (Muslim) countries. In other … discrimination. Instrumental variable regressions support our interpretation that this result reflects a causal effect of …

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Network effects, ethnic capital and immigrants' earnings assimilation : evidence from a spatial, Hausman-Taylor estimation

Maani, Sholeh A.; Wang, Xingang; Rogers, Alan J. - 2015

Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of ‘ethnic capital’ (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a...

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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to pinpoint what features of societies that are beneficial to gay men's quality of life by making use of a unique new cross-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay...

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Do Equal Rights for a Minority Affect General Life Satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions embodying equal rights for gay people matter for the life satisfaction of gays, we combine these two issues to analyze how the latter type of institutions relates to general life...

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Islamic Constitutions and Religious Minorities

Gouda, Moamen - 2018

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Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation : Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation

Maani, Sholeh A. - 2015

Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of 'ethnic capital' (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a dynamic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016185

Ethnicity as Inclusion and Exclusion : Drawing on Concept and Practice in Accounting Research

Baskerville, Rachel F. - 2018

Purpose – Accounting research has struggled with how ethnicity is to be understood in relation to concepts such as nation and nationality and how ethnicity may impact on accounting and auditing practices, behaviours, education and professional values. These themes are explored and developed in...

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What Aspects of Society Affect the Quality of Life of a Minority? Global Evidence from the New Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2021

There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to pinpoint what features of societies that are beneficial to gay men’s quality of life by making use of a unique new cross-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220484

Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: a spatial autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021

The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021

Millions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services. Despite the African National Congress's promise to reduce the disparities generated by apartheid, the level of public services remains highly uneven across the country. Most...

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