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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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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity - A comparative study of Europe and the United States

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - 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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Love thy neighbor: Religion and prosocial behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

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Love thy neighbor: Religion and prosocial behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

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Secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015

This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …

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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355

The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and …'éducation, de la religion, et la classe sociale des personnes concernées. Selon de nombreux Africains son incidence est encore …

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Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in Benin and Haiti

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Globalization and transformations of local …, (pp. 151-173). 2007

religion, and between different trans-national social spaces. Different innovation cultures may be complementary, mutually … African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. … différenciation structurelle selon la classe, le sexe et la religion, et entre les différents espaces sociaux transnationaux. Cultures …

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