The Political Economy of Religion and Labor

Labib Shami; Osnat Akirav

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1

Book chapter · 2021

The Political Economy of Religion and Labor

Labib Shami and Osnat Akirav

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), Springer, 1–24 Book chapter

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Brings economics and political science together to examine how religious actors gain political influence and use it to shape labour-market policy and their followers' work behaviour, with Israel's ultra-Orthodox community as a central case.

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Political economy & game theory

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Type: Book chapter
Status: Published
In: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), Springer
Pages: 1–24
Online: 29 October 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1
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Shami, L., & Akirav, O. (2021). The Political Economy of Religion and Labor. In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), Springer (pp. 1–24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1

BibTeX

@incollection{shami2021political,
  author = {Shami, Labib and Akirav, Osnat},
  title = {The Political Economy of Religion and Labor},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics},
  editor = {Zimmermann, Klaus F.},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {1--24},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1}
}