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Speaking Acquaintances or Helpers in Need: Participation in Civic Associations and Individual Social Capital

Mutz, Michael; Burrmann, Ulrike; Braun, Sebastian - In: VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and … 33 (2020) 1, pp. 162-172

Germany. Findings show that participation in civic associations is associated with higher levels of social support. This …

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The impact of central places on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures

Werck, Kristien; Heyndels, Bruno; Geys, Benny - 2007

Governments often see it as their responsibility to support cultural life and at times spend a significant amount of resources in the pursuit of this goal. The present paper analyses whether and how municipalities influence each other in this decision to spend resources on the arts (using data...

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Looking across borders: a test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings

Geys, Benny - 2006

Spatial patterns in (local) government taxation and spending decisions have received a lot of scholarly attention recently. Still, the focus on taxation or expenditure levels in previous studies is incomplete. In fact, (rational) individuals are likely to consider the level of spending on (or...

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Modeling international diffusion: Inferential benefits and methodological challenges, with an application to international tax competition

Franzese, Robert J.; Hays, Jude C. - 2004

Although scholars recognize that time-series-cross-section data typically correlate across both time and space, they tend to model temporal dependence directly, often by lags of dependent variables, but to address spatial interdependence solely as a nuisance to be “corrected” by FGLS or to...

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The inverse domino effect: Are economic reforms contagious?

Gassebner, Martin; Gaston, Noel; Lamla, Michael - 2007

This paper examines whether a country's economic reforms are affected by reforms adopted by other countries. A simple model of economic reforms is developed to motivate the econometric work. Unsurprisingly, the model predicts that reforms are more likely when factors of production are...

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Property tax autonomy and tax mimicking in major metropolitan areas in Poland

Malkowska, Agnieszka; Telega, Agnieszka; Gluszak, Michal; … - 2017

Research background: Real estate and urban economics literature is abundant in studies discussing various types of property taxes and their characteristics. Growing area of research focused on tax equity, tax competition, and tax mimicking. Recently, due to substantial developments in spatial...

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Skilled migration: Bridging the conceptual gap between friendship, social capital, and employability

Potts, Danielle; Martensen, Malte - 2020

Germany's population is currently undergoing a major shift as well as a general decline. These changes are expected to … Germany struggle to find work after completing their studies. How, and with who, international students form their networks in … students to find employment in their host country post-graduation. Additionally, for Germany in particular, this will mean more …

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Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

Lancee, Bram - 2012

this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of …

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Subjective economic well-being in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002

This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered logit model, the determinants of subjective economic...

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Are human rights and economic well-being substitutes? Evidence from migration patterns across the Indian states

Libman, Alexander; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, Gaurav - 2011

The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and for economic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the 'voice' perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the 'exit' perspective (migration patterns)....

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