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Item Religious Freedom and State Religion in an Interational Panel(2005-08-13T17:37:13Z) Gwin, Carl R.; North, Charles Mark, 1964-This paper explores the determinants and implications of church-state relationships. A theoretical model of a government’s decision to establish, or disestablish, a state church is developed and then tested with data from a 65-year panel of 31 countries. We also examine the effects of state religion and legal protection of religious freedom on religious attendance and religious pluralism. We show that, due to economies of scale in the provision of religious services, governments are most likely to establish a state religion in countries with homogeneous populations. We further show that heterogeneity of religious preferences reduces the likelihood of a state religion, that state religions undermine the overall religiosity of the population in religiously pluralistic countries, and that religious freedom protection increases religious attendance and spurs increases in religious pluralism. The overall implication of our model and empirical findings is that state religion is inherently self-destructive when religious freedom is guaranteed.Item Religious Pluralism and Religious Adherence in U.S. Counties: Assessing the Reassessment(2005-08-13T17:24:19Z) North, Charles Mark, 1964-; Staha, Melissa B.We conduct an empirical test of the relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in U.S. counties using a fixed-effects panel estimation technique. The empirical technique allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across counties resulting from various cultural and historical factors. Contrary to prior cross-sectional research on the 1980 and 1990 Glenmary U.S. counties data, we find a significantly positive relationship between pluralism and participation from panel estimation on the same data. However, we also explain how changes between 1980 and 1990 in the composition of denominations in the Glenmary samples can generate a false positive relationship with the panel estimator. The results show the importance for future research on pluralism and participation of data that have a consistent denominational composition across time.Item Unemployment Duration under Wrongful Discharge Law(2005-08-13T17:28:26Z) Nicholson, Kristin A.; North, Charles Mark, 1964-In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public policy, implied contract, and good faith. This paper examines the effects of state-level wrongful discharge actions on the duration of unemployment spells. We use individual data from the March supplements to the Current Population Survey for 1979- 2000, refining the sample in various ways to correct for shortcomings inherent in CPS data on unemployment spell duration. Results indicate that judicial adoption of wrongful discharge law lengthened the duration of unemployment spells. For the broadest sample of workers, all three types of wrongful discharge law lengthened unemployment spells. However, when the analysis is limited to workers who can be matched across their two years of participation in the survey, only the implied contract action has a significant effect. In addition, we look for the presence of differential insider/outsider effects, as have been found in studies of European employment protection legislation, but we find only limited evidence of such effects.