Mit ihren rund 3,8 Millionen Beschäftigten ist die Metall- und Elektroindustrie (M+E-Industrie) die größte Industriebranche in Deutschland. Davon waren 2015 allein mehr als 700 000 Personen in mehr als 5 700 Betrieben in Nordrhein-Westfalen tätig. Die Produktion in der...

Die Herstellung von Metallerzeugnissen ist eine wichtige Zulieferindustrie für weitere Branchen des Produzierenden Gewerbes. Matthias Opfinger, Handelsblatt Research Institute, zeigt die Entwicklung der Branche. So gehören zu den Abnehmern neben anderen Betrieben aus dem eigenen...

Religious Market Theory assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. The derived supply side model proposes that religiosity is higher on a competitive market, characterized by high religious diversity. Churches will provide higher quality goods compared to monopolistic churches....

Despite all economic and social transitions that have occurred in the last centuries we still find that people go to church. Somehow religious beliefs have not vanished over time. Since there is no material reward for going to church or praying religiosity has to create utility through other...

Iannaccone's (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. In a competitive market with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. The Secularization Hypothesis suggests that the establishment of new churches casts doubt on the...

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...