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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent years. This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM econometric model. Specifically it attempted to test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567678
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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476377
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Darke Side of Social Capital Social Preferences and Corruption
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
suggests that corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027124
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Social capital in Europe from 1990 to 2012: trends, path-dependency and convergence
Sarracino, Francesco; Mikucka, Malgorzata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
the world, such as Europe. This study uses WVS-EVS integrated data (1990-2012) to describe the trends of 10 proxies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253064
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Impact of social capital on flexible work organisation models: comparative study of european countries
Ferreira, Pedro; Vieira, Elvira; Neira, Isabel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present economic context is heavily marked by a global crisis without precedents. Facing this constraint, companies feel pressured to undertake even greater efforts in order to optimize available resources. Work organisation is one of the mechanisms that managers use to align human resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647419
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Maltese shores, and the workers’ flows from the new Member States from Central and Eastern Europe following the 2004 accession …, forced the EU officials and the whole Europe to open the debate on the economical and mostly social consequences of labour … celebrate 9 May - The Europe Day was already a tradition for SISEC (an academic formula launched back in 1995 in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621891
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Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health
Damiano, Fiorillo; Fabio, Sabatini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
empirical study of the relationship between social interactions and health in Italy. Second, we add to previous studies by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876881
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The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … to the rest of Italy. As expected, this scales down the role of social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022007
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Democracy or videocracy? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the Italian political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025249
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Job satisfaction in Italy: individual characteristics and social relations
Fiorillo, Damiano; Nappo, Nunzia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025264