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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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The rise and fall of enforcement institutions : an example of religion and secularism

Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011

less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …

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Secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 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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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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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 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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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

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'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209718

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