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This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
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The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and …'éducation, de la religion, et la classe sociale des personnes concernées. Selon de nombreux Africains son incidence est encore …
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The impact of occult belief on legitimacy of the state and on aid for democratization in Africa: Among politicians and development experts in Africa alike there is a growing awareness of the never decreasing importance of the belief in magic and witchcraft on political decision making since...
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We provide one of the first investigations of the cultural and value dimensions through which Protestantism affects entrepreneurship by focusing on the historically predetermined religious minorities residing in the regions of the former Holy Roman Empire. By exploiting the minorities’ strong...
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distinct cultural outgroup. The main conflict affecting Christians involves nomadic pastoralists of Fulani ethnicity, who are …
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distinct cultural outgroup. The main conflict affecting Christians involves nomadic pastoralists of Fulani ethnicity, who are …
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grazing ban policy due to a contagion effect: the common religion of Islam that they share with nomadic herders could lead to …
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suburbs. We find evidences of significant hiring discrimination against applicants of North African origin, regardless of … their religious closenesses and against applicants signaling closeness to the Muslim religion, regardless of their national …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only a small degree of out-group discrimination. However, Jordanian …We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in …'s degree of out-group discrimination, particularly among Syrian refugee children, suggesting that discriminatory preferences …
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community. Due to hard times, wars, discrimination, they had to leave the country for a better life, thus, their number …
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