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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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Asabiyya : re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion … ; international political economy ; religion ; bureaucracy ; corruption …

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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...

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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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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 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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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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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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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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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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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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