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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886145
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858800
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Trust and Racial Income Inequality: Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167272
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Trust and Racial Income Inequality: Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183305
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Trust and racial income inequality: evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183328
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785487
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Beyond Extended Phenotype Evolution of extended identity in order to reconcile study of humanity with biological evolution
Mezgebo, Taddese - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...
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Gemeinsinn und Engagement – Ressourcen fuer die Soziale Marktwirtschaft? (Common Sense and Volunteering – Resources for the Social Market Economy?)
Hollstein, Bettina - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 14 (2013) 1, pp. 45-61
Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft setzt in ihrer Ausgestaltung zum aktivierenden Sozialstaat auf Buergerschaftliches Engagement, das seit einigen Jahren verstaerkt von der Politik gefoerdert wird. Die Zivilgesellschaft uebernimmt und gestaltet dadurch u.a. Bereiche, die einst hoheitlich vom Staat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679672
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Social capital, economics and political economy
Barone, Guglielmo; Blasio, Guido de; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014
The volume collects the essays presented at the conference "Social capital, economics and political economy" held in Rome on 27 June 2014. The first session analyzes definition and measurement issues about social capital. The second and third sessions examine its determinants and economic...
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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
factors that affect trust at a local level (‘localised trust’) and at a national level (‘generalised trust’). Trust is … neighbourhood level, trust is higher in affluent areas, and lower in ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous communities, with … localised trust for both natives and immigrants, and reduces generalised trust only for immigrants. Instrumental variables …
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