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Heterogeneity in migration network effects across cultures
Bogatzki, Tamara - 2021
Kollektivistische Gesellschaften verfügen über ein höheres gemeinschaftsspezifisches Sozialkapital als … individualistische Gesellschaften. Dieses gesellschaftsspezifische Sozialkapital macht das Verlassen der Gemeinschaft kostspieliger, kann …
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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...
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Refugees and social capital : evidence from Northern Lebanon
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2020
Despite numerous studies on the social and political impact of refugees in Europe, we have very little systematic evidence on the impact of refugee settlement on social cohesion in the developing world. Using data gathered in Northern Lebanon, we show that increased salience of the "refugee...
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Ethnic diversity, public goods provision and social cohesion : lessons from an inconclusive literature
Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013
Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...
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Diversity and social capital within the workplace : evidence from Britain
Breda, Thomas; Manning, Alan - 2016
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The influence of social capital on CEO dismissal in Germany : an empirical analysis
Wrage, Markus; Tuschke, Anja; Bresser, Rudi K. F. - 2011
In this study, we address the question of why some CEOs stay in office during a performance downturn while others don't. Based on a social capital perspective we assume that (1) the social capital endowment of an underperforming CEO may reduce the risk of getting dismissed and that (2) the...
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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...
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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996
Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …
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