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Polarisation and health
Blanco Pérez, Cristina; Ramos, Xavier - 2008
This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268538
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Can income inequality contribute to understand inequalities in health? An empirical approach based on the European Community Household Panel
Cantarero, David; Pascual, Marta; Sarabia, Jose Maria - 2004
In this paper the causal effects of socioeconomic status, in particular income, on individuals health in the European … Union are analysed. We focus on the relationship between income and health. Finally, an international comparison of … concentration indices for socioeconomic inequality in health based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is presented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318848
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Vertrauen und Sozialkapital an einer wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität der Bundeswehr München und in Deutschland: Eine empirische Studie
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reidelhuber, Martin - 2007
Dieser Beitrag ist das Ergebnis eines sechs Monate langen Studienprojekts, durchgeführt an der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften (WOW) an der Universität der Bundeswehr München. Gemeinsam mit 17 (männlichen und weiblichen) Studenten hat das "akademische Team",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296882
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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2008
Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public?s monitoring ability. Still, although extensive voter involvement may put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298034
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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003
Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299417
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Measuring social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities: The case of Cháparra, Peru
Hartmann, Dominik; Arata, Atilio - 2011
In the last decades substantive advance has been made in the measurement and understanding of frontier innovation in highly industrialized settings. However, little research focused on the process of learning and the introduction of novelties in smallholder farming of poor agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306218
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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321606
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Trust and Growth in the 1990s - A Robustness Analysis
Bengtsson, Mikael; Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005
We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the 1990s) and with a bigger sample (63 countries) than previous studies. In addition to robustness tests that focus on model uncertainty, we use Least Trimmed Squares, a robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321616
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Free to Trust? Economic Freedom and Social Capital
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005
We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, we use newer data, we incorporate more countries, and we use instrumental variables to handle the causality problem. A central result is that legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321621
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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups
Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324773