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New times, old beliefs: Projecting the future size of religions in Austria

Goujon, Anne; Skirbekk, Vegard; Fliegenschnee, Katrin; … - 2006

, represent 14 to 26% of the population by 2051. If current fertility trends remain constant, Islam could represent the majority …

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Stigmatization and racial selection after September 11, 2001: Self-identity among Arab and Islamic Americans

Mason, Patrick L.; Matella, Andrew - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-21

During the 2000s Arab and Islamic American racial identity selection was subjected to an exogenous racializing event, viz., public and private reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the...

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Unerfüllte Erwartungen bei Ägyptens junger gebildeter Generation

Binzel, Christine - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 33, pp. 2-8

Bereits in den 50er Jahren begann Ägypten sein Bildungssystem auszuweiten. Folglich konnte das Land über die letzten Jahrzehnte einen erheblichen Bildungsanstieg verzeichnen. Haushaltsdaten zeigen außerdem, dass auch Kinder aus Familien mit niedrigem Bildungsstand von den Investitionen im...

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Die junge Generation ist besser ausgebildet und hat trotzdem kaum Chancen: Sechs Fragen an Christine Binzel

Binzel, Christine; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 33, pp. 9

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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...

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Development as a battlefield

Bono, Irene (contributor); Hibou, Béatrice (contributor) - 2017

"Development as a Battlefield" is an innovative exploration of the multidimensional meanings of - and interactions between - conflict and development. The two phenomena are all too often regarded as ostensibly antagonistic. This was exemplified again in the context of the Arab Spring that...

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Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2018

Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...

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Islamic constitutions and religious minorities

Gouda, Moamen; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018

discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important … words, as Islam becomes a constitutionally prescribed source of legisla-tion in Muslim societies, it is expected that … the su-premacy of Islam and Shari’a is constitutionally entrenched, religious minorities are in-deed likely to face more …

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Risk and return under Shari'a framework: An attempt to develop Shari'a compliant asset pricing model (SCAPM)

Hanif, Muhammad - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 283-292

A speedy emerging area of finance is the Shari'a compliant financial system. In first decade of 21st century Islamic financing has shown tremendous increase and global volume has reached to US $ 1,041 billion by the end of 2009. Being financial intermediaries Islamic Financial Institutions...

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Gender, Islam, and law

Bowen, John Richard - 2017

This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic …

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