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Social Variables and Economic Success: the Case of Italian Industrial Development
Peri, Giovanni - 2004
Italy makes for a very interesting case study of the impact of social variables on economic performance. Across its … the importance of some social variables on industrialization and on employment creation across 95 Italian provinces during … industrial and economic development. On the other hand we find strong evidence that organized crime, measured as high murder …
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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....
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Languages Disenfranchisement in the European Union
Weber, Shlomo; Ginsburgh, Victor - 2004
We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced. We use the data on language proficiency in EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the retention of French and German as working languages in essential...
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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - 2013
This paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, I present gender specific differences for several social activities, such as club memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time...
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Bilingualism and communicative benefits
Gabszewicz, Jean; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Shlomo - 2008
We examine patterns of acquiring non-native languages in a model with two languages and two populations with heterogeneous learning skills, where every individual faces a binary choice of learning the foreign language or refraining from doing so. We show that both interior and corner linguistic...
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National identity and economic activity of Ukrainian population: Relationship and differences in the regions
Ovcharenko, Ievhen; Semenenko, Inna - In: Contemporary Economics 16 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This research examines the relation between the levels of national identity of Ukrainians in different regions of the country and the current state of their economic activity. The study explores whether the changes in economic activity of Ukrainian population are related to the changes in the...
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The Determinants and Effects of Social Connectedness in Europe
Bailey, Michael; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; … - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social connectedness declines strongly in geographic distance and at country borders. Historical borders and unions — such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and East/West...
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Sozialkapital landwirtschaftlicher Produzenten in der Tschechischen Republik: Seine Auswirkung auf das ökonomische Ergebnis
Wolz, Axel; Fritzsch, Jana; Pencáková, Jitka - 2006
einer Faktoren- und Regressionsanalyse nachgewiesen werden, dass Sozialkapital einen wichtigen Einflussfaktor auf das …
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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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Heterogeneity in migration network effects across cultures
Bogatzki, Tamara - 2021
Kollektivistische Gesellschaften verfügen über ein höheres gemeinschaftsspezifisches Sozialkapital als … individualistische Gesellschaften. Dieses gesellschaftsspezifische Sozialkapital macht das Verlassen der Gemeinschaft kostspieliger, kann …
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