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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …, for cross-national research on religion and economic growth also shows that the “active society” of volunteer organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203179
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155538
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046235
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices : The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, L. - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118057
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S : Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2013
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085065
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour : Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073852
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A Tale of Minorities : Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, L. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057917
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the Lisbon Process
Tausch, Arno - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775462
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Tausch, Arno - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000073