attaining a higher living standard and expected low job search costs abroad are strong forces that drive emigration intentions … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … judging from their stated intentions although there are signs of negative selection within the group of return migrants in …

remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

requires not only mutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examine whether players …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

abilities and trust in intentions). The closure argument emphasizes that dense network structures enforce individuals to be …This paper empirically explores relations between network positions in knowledge networks and trust. In social network … different dimensions of trust. In this paper we estimate effects of closure positions on two dimensions of trust (trust in …