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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601034
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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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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...
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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach
Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003
This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...
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Weiterbildung im Betrieb mit E-Learning, Web 2.0, Mikrolernen und Wissensmanagement
Koch, Johannes; Heidemann, Winfried; Zumbeck, Christine - 2012
E-Learning, Web 2.0 Mikrolernen und Wissensmanagement verändern die betriebliche Weiterbildung grundlegend und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892773
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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003
Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …
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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
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Social interaction and stock market participation: Evidence from British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2010
This paper uses data from the British National Child Development Study to investigate the relationship between social interaction and participation in the stock market through holding stocks and/or shares at the individual level. In accordance with the existing literature, the results reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269759
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Does social capital mitigate precariousness?
Sabatini, Fabio - 2008
There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270945
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Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital: evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, 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 individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274795