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

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

rights ; religion …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? : a comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion … mainly the function of a buffer and of "balm to the soul". -- immigration ; religion ; integration ; Europe ; United States …

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements : a theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …

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The labor market behavior of married women with young children in the US : have differences by religion disappeared?

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - 2013

by religious affiliation. -- women's labor market behavior ; female employment ; religion ; religious affiliation …

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices : the case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

behaviour. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; religion ; culture ; Protestantism ; Catholicism …

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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior

Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable A.; Nunn, Nathan; … - 2023

Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...

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Disentangling Religiosity : The Impact of Religious Motivators on Business Ethics (A Mixed-Methods Study)

Walter, Yoshija - 2020

Empirical studies confirm that there is a positive effect from a believer's religiosity to business ethics; this effect is presently called the spillover effect. The problem with those studies is that ‘religiosity' is poorly operationalized as a monolithic construct, which does not result in...

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The State, Toleration, and Religious Freedom

Johnson, Noel D. - 2018

This paper offers a novel account of the rise of religious freedom. Religious and political power have been bound together since pre-history. As a consequence, there was an absence of religious freedom throughout most of history. Even when religious dissidents were not being persecuted for their...

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Examining the Role of Religion, the Economy, and Xenophobia as Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Erkoc, Taptuk Emre - 2019

This research focuses on the determinants of declining democracy values in the world using recently available data. By doing so, factors that are expected to be correlated with declining democratic values are illuminated and discussed based on formulated hypotheses. This paper utilises...

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