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In guter Gesellschaft? Sozialstruktur und soziale Beziehungen in Kleinstädten
Schiemann, Sara; Steinführer, Annett - In: Kompendium Kleinstadtforschung, (pp. 209-234). 2021
Der Beitrag widmet sich den Sozialstrukturen und sozialen Beziehungen in Kleinstädten: Es werden die zentralen Begrifflichkeiten geklärt, ein Überblick über den bisherigen Forschungsstand gegeben sowie offene Fragen für die Kleinstadtforschung benannt. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass...
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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586050
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028
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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271793
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The interplay of human and social capital in entrepreneurship in developing countries: The case of Uganda
Rooks, Gerrit; Szirmai, Adam; Sserwanga, Arthur - 2009
This paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation activities and innovative performance. The paper...
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401802
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431157