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Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2009
Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766512
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Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008020
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Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2009
Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091253
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Social Capital in the creation of Human Capital and Economic Growth: A Productive Consumption Approach
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and …. This study deals with the formation of social capital through development of human capital that is created from productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260984
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When sociable workers pay off: Can firms internalize social capital externalities?
Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; Roseta-Palma, Catarina; … - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 127-136
We use an endogenous growth model to contrast the socially optimal allocation of human capital with the decentralized solution, in a context where workers make the choices that determine social capital accumulation. As social capital is expected to increase productivity but is not traded in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573247
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence
Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565125
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Social values and economic dynamics
Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Chul-In - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 53 (2015) C, pp. 69-84
-rivalrous way and evolve through experience/participation at the aggregate social level. While they are separate from the stock of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209216
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Globalization and social networks
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Globalization is a universal phenomenon that not only makes domestic economies restructure, but also may impact other areas of local societies. This paper studies the effect of globalization on human relations, in particular on the formation of social networks, both bonding and bridging: I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260571
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Social and institutional factors of economic development: evidence from Europe
Kaldaru, Helje; Parts, Eve - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 8 (2008) 1, pp. 29-51
Social and institutional determinants of economic development are attracting increasing attention among development … development in 34 European countries. Macro-level social capital comprises different aspects of institutional quality and is … social determinants of economic development into three components (human and social capital, income equality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245137