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The topic of neighbourhood-based social interactions has gained attention in the last decades in the light of urban policies that aim to deal with problems regarding social segregation and exclusion, quality of life and liveability in urban areas. Social interactions are expected to play an...
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. We investigate how neighbours, friends and other non-family individuals compensate for the shortages of help received by … rely almost exclusively on family; as the geographical distance between adult children and elderly parents increases, the … probability and amount of non-family support increase as well. In eastern and southern Europe, elderly individuals receive more …
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The available empirical evidence on the wage effect of finding jobs through informal contacts is mixed. This author theorizes that, depending upon the efficiency of formal search methods, the use of personal contacts can lead either to a wage premium or to a wage penalty. Using data from the...
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