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The compensating income variation of social capital
Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Praag, … - 2007
to individual characteristics such as education, age, place of residence, household composition and health. Household …
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Friendship relations in the school class and adult economic attainment
Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - 2005
We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of highschool on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locateeach student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant,a broker or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343280
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348344
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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups
Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326404
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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?
Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011
Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382705
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Who can predict their own Demise? : accuracy of longevity expectations by education and cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532122
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The health penalty of China's rapid urbanization
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377598
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334361
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Who carries the burden of reproductive health and AIDS programs? : evidence from OECD donor countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2005
This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349