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Keeping up with the e-Joneses: Do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2018
Online social networks, such as Facebook, amplify the occasions for social comparisons which are detrimental to well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848838
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Online networks, social interaction and segregation: An evolutionary approach
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio - 2018
participation: 1) interaction via both online social networks and face-to-face encounters; 2) interaction by exclusive means of face … networks users, thereby making Facebook and similar platforms disappear in the long run. Furthermore, we show that the higher … the propensity for discrimination of those who interact via online social networks and via face-to-face encounters (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853394
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Civility and Trust in Social Media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816562
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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development: The Case of Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312390
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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312481
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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312487
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The Solaria syndrome : social capital in a growing hyper-technological economy
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 81 (2012) 3, pp. 802-814
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626381
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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2016
Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457730
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Online networks, social interaction and segregation : an evolutionary approach
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 28 (2018) 4, pp. 859-883
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949205
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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2018
Online social networks, such as Facebook, amplify the occasions for social comparisons which are detrimental to well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848516