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Austria until 2051 by considering relative fertility rates, religion-specific net migration, and the rate of conversion … religion for those below 15 years of age in 2051. Other religion categories are estimated to constitute 7-12% of the population …
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Zusammenfassung Zahlreiche Kulturlandschaften, die maßgeblich von religiösen Bauwerken, Traditionen oder Riten geprägt sind, nutzen in ihrem touristischen Marketing diese Besonderheiten und entwickeln darauf basierend eine regionale Marke mit eigenem Namen, Logo und Webauftritt. Die...
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This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that Catholics, Muslims and Orthodoxs are more likely to support such "macho values" than Protestants...
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We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
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. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …
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While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …
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In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural and particular religious factors on tourist flows into the USA as the world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give evidence that the gravity equation is an adequate...
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Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …
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The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
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