A tale of minorities: evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship

Does Protestantism favour entrepreneurship more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their denomination’ ethical principles and the hist...

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Volume:	21
Main Author:	Nunziata, Luca Rocco, Lorenzo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	New York Springer US 01.06.2016 SPRINGER Springer
published in:	Journal of economic growth (Boston, Mass.) Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 189 - 224
Data of publication:	20160600
ISSN:	1381-4338 1573-7020
EISSN:	1573-7020
Discipline:	Economics Religion
Subjects:	Economics Self-employment Religion J21 Switzerland J24 Entrepreneurship International Economics Protestantism Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics Catholicism Z12 Z13 Economic Growth Culture Business & Economics Social Sciences Religious ethics Analysis Religion and ethics Self-employment CATHOLICS Entrepreneurship PROTESTANTS PREFERENCES COMPETITION Religion Protestantism Catholicism Switzerland Culture CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2016 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS