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Female labour force participation in Arab countries: The role of identity

Caris, Tobias; Hayo, Bernd - 2012

We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job. In...

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...

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From Worship to Worldly Pleasures: Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth

Strulik, Holger - 2012

speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …

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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

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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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of Spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … “no religion” made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …

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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.

Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...

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Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?

Fix, Blair - 2022

Among leftists, predicting the end of capitalism is a favorite parlor game. For example, as a graduate student in the 2010s, I remember discovering the 1976 edition of Marx’s Capital and being struck by the introduction. Written by the Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel, the foreword concluded that...

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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States

Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021

We investigate the legacy of the former Papal States on modern female condition by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the border between the former Papal States and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany. While in the Papal States gender inequality was particularly...

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