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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Otterbeck, Jonas - 2007

. Finally, the influence of negative discourses on Islam and Muslims are discussed. …

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Perceptions and labor market outcomes of immigrants in Australia after 9/11

Goel, Deepti - 2009

I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to other immigrant groups. I also examine whether there...

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Post 9-11 U.S. muslim labor market outcomes

Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - 2009

Using a difference-in-differences framework and micro data from the Current Population Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group Files (1999 to 2004), this paper estimates the impact that the 9-11 terrorists attacks had on the U.S. labor market outcomes of individuals with nativity profiles similar...

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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Clash of cultures: Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam: theory and evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … (i) determined the economic aspects of the religious doctrine upon which Islam was formed, and (ii) shaped its subsequent … had to remain within limits for Islam to persist. This was instituted via restrictions on physical capital accumulation …

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Changes in beliefs and perceptions about the natural environment in the forest-Savanna transitional zone of Ghana: the influence of religion

Sarfo-Mensah, Paul; Oduro, William - 2010

Christianity and Islam. …

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Cast the net wider: How a vision of global halal markets is overcoming network envy

Fischer, Johan - 2008

This paper explores Malaysia's bid to become the world leader in rapidly expanding halal (lawful or permitted) markets on a global scale. Over the last three decades, a powerful state nationalism has emerged, represented by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant political...

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Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries

Mousseau, Michael - 2010

. The rise of militant Islam can be attributed to high rates of urbanization in many Muslim countries in recent decades … already in power. Imams have an incentive to preach want audiences want to hear, so a mutated in-group version of Islam …

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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