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The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...
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, (2) analysis of small-scale neighbourhood contexts and (3) a focus on trust related sentiments or public goods production …
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incorporates three key dimensions of personal social capital; (i) structural (personal ties), (ii) cognitive (trust) and (iii … argue that tolerance acts as a bridging mechanism between trust and ties in affecting overall wellbeing. Using ordered … improves life satisfaction. Of the social capital indicators, we find that trust in institutions has the largest marginal …
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For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional … recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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the European Union for period 2008-2016. Social capital indicators are applied in the model are "trust in others" and …. Our estimations point at a rejection of the main hypothesis. Opportunistic behavior and less social trust result in more … profits for European countries. We justify the results in two ways. First, due to the 2008 financial crisis, trust in all …
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