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more perplexing since gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic … factor" and what these authors call "gender ideology". Our analysis of the "gender ideology" of Islamism and gender values is … based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that …
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more perplexing since gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic … factor" and what these authors call "gender ideology". Our analysis of the "gender ideology" of Islamism and gender values is … based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000073
Islamist terrorism. We rely on the analysis of PEW and World Values Survey data from Muslim publics in different countries … groups which still exist in the Middle East and the entire Muslim world, and the Sunni/Shia competition as well as regional …
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assumed that religiosity contributes to poverty. However, this conjecture may not be true because religion provides motivation … poverty. The present paper uses data from World Values Survey (WVS) covering 52 countries and 74,042 individuals, to construct …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we … 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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