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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa
Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018
-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942823
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288794
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252455
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Efficiency, fairness, and social cohesion in Europe and the United States : incomes, hours of work, and equality with an afterhought on Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016
The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517905
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Ethnic divisions and production in firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199424
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The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; Ortuño-Ortín, … - 2016
This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573218
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Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact : a field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild A. - 2019
We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results indicate that close personal contact with minorities increases trust … towards a generic immigrant. We replicate the result that individuals coming from more ethnically diverse areas trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973967
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Roots of inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023 - This version: August 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293281
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Social capital and collusion : the case of merchant guilds
Dessí, Roberta; Olgivie, Sheilagh - 2003
Merchant guilds have been portrayed as social networks that generated beneficial social capital by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action. This social capital, it is claimed, benefited society as a whole by enabling rulers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509466