This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … is conducive to per capita income growth and that social capital affects this growth indirectly by fostering innovation …. Our estimates suggest that there is no direct role for social capital to foster per capita income growth in our sample of …

minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to … expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus … results, with disproportionate minority presence. …

the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and … majority individuals to different incentives as concerns their choice of skills. As a result, minority and majority individuals …

the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and … majority individuals to different incentives as concerns their choice of skills. As a result, minority and majority individuals …

) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the …. Furthermore, I establish that there is a threshold level of ICT below which all minority individuals prefer segregated … neighborhoods and above which some minority individuals choose to integrate, thereby reaping the efficiency benefits of social …

According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the … original population of firms, so that the resulting industrial "core" does not depart from a Gibrat-like pattern of growth …