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2021-02-03Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/22645
Religion and Labor Market Performance
dc.contributor.authorÖhlmann, Philipp
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-30T14:23:19Z
dc.date.available2021-03-30T14:23:19Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-03none
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/23253
dc.descriptionThis article was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.none
dc.description.abstractA growing corpus of literature has explored the influence of religion on economic attitudes and behavior. The present paper investigates the effect of religion on labor market performance using a novel approach to control for the endogeneity of religion. It proposes contingency experience, individual experiences of existential insecurity, as an instrumental variable of a person’s religiosity. The empirical analysis uses data from a household survey in South Africa specifically designed for this study. The econometric approach is the estimation of instrumental variable ordered probit and linear probability models. Using the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), the analysis differentiates between effects of individual religious intensity and of religious affiliation. The findings show that individual religiosity, measured in the CRS, has a robust and positive effect on labor market performance. Religious affiliation does not seem to affect labor market performance. The positive effect on religiosity is documented in a set of ordered and binary outcome models across different indicators of labor market performance. The study concludes that the intensity of belief exerts an influence on labor market attitudes and outcomes, while affiliation in religious communities (indicating different content of belief) does not seem to make a difference.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectreligioneng
dc.subjectreligiosityeng
dc.subjectCentrality of Religiosity Scaleeng
dc.subjectlabor market performanceeng
dc.subjectcontingency experienceeng
dc.subjectinstrumental variableseng
dc.subjectSouth Africaeng
dc.subject.ddc200 Religionnone
dc.subject.ddc630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereichenone
dc.titleReligion and Labor Market Performancenone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/23253-4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22645
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages40none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn2077-1444
dc.title.subtitleIs It What You Believe or How Much?none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/rel12020102
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleAgriculturenone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume12none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue2none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber102none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPI AGnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBaselnone
bua.departmentTheologische Fakultätnone
dcterms.accessRights.openaireinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessnone

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