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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
Grundlagen der (auch) in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften verwendeten Begriffe "Vertrauen" and "Sozialkapital" erarbeitet, um …" und "Sozialkapital". Zweitens hat sich ergeben, dass beide Untersuchungsgruppen systematisch (mehr oder weniger abstrakten … academic team, composed of Friedrich L. Sell and Martin Reidelhuber, worked on the theoretical basics of "trust" and "social …
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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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Sozialer Rohstoff: "Den meisten Menschen kann man vertrauen."
Michalski, Niels; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 34, pp. 570-579
Vertrauen ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem ambivalenten Schlüsselbegriff geworden, der in Debatten um den vermeintlichen Vertrauensverlust im öffentlichen Leben wie gegenüber Politikern und Institutionen aufgegriffen wird. Der Begriff wird auch als Ursache für die Krise auf den globalen...
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Ethnische Diversität, soziales Vertrauen und Zivilengagement: Projektbericht
Koopmans, Ruud; Dunkel, Anna; Schaeffer, Merlin; Veit, … - 2011
Zum Zusammenhang zwischen ethnischer Heterogenität, Sozialkapital (Vertrauen, freiwilliges Engagement, Mitgliedschaft … Sozialkapital haben die Projektergebnisse den erwarteten negativen Zusammenhang zwischen objektiver, d.h. statistisch ausgewiesener …Existing evidence on the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity, social capital (trust, voluntarism, associational …
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Do welfare programs damage interpersonal trust? Experimental evidence from representative samples for four Latin American cities
Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo; Rios, Vanessa - 2009
trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …
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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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The relationship between Stress, Strain and Social Capital
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
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Inequality and Trust
Jordahl, Henrik - 2007
This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the …
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Vendettas
Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2010
Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
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Trust and Fiscal Performance: A Panel Analysis with Swiss Data
Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2005
to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
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