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Social capital: reviewing the concept and its policy implications

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

There is scope for Governments to take more account of social capital in policy development, according to this Commission study. This paper suggests that social capital generally brings social and economic benefits by reducing transaction costs, promoting cooperative behaviour, diffusing...

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Public goods’ attractiveness and migrations

GABSZEWICZ, Jean; Gvetadze, Salome; Laussel, Didier; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

The aim of this paper is to develop a dynamic model of migrations, in which migration is driven by size asymmetries …

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Policy Implementation in Italy: Legislation, Public Administration and the Rule of Law

O'Brien, Paul - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

OECD indicators of structural policy show that policy changes in Italy since 1998 should have improved the environment … Italy (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Italy).<P>Mise en oeuvre des politiques en Italie : réglementation, administration publique …

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Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a …. Our approach is to use an equilibrium search and matching model, calibrated using data from the bonus experiments and …

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Evaluating Pooled Evidence from the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

Decker, Paul T.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …) claimants a cash bonus for rapid reemployment. This paper combines data from the two experiments and uses a consistent framework … to evaluate the experiments and determine with greater certainty the extent to which a reemployment bonus can affect …

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Regional Unemployment in Poland: A Legacy of Central Planning

Walsh, Patrick Paul - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2000

We model job reallocation and unemployment as outcomes jointly determined by the structure of inherited social capital within a two-sector Optimal Speed of Transition model. Treating regions of Poland as independent labour markets, the socio-economic inheritance of regions is found to be a...

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Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital"

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.

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Social Networks and Labour Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We study the influence of social networks on labour market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status co-evolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed...

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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762264

Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico

Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a … the capital obtained from international migration only to overcome liquidity constraints for subsistence production … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …

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