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Sind gewählte Teamleiter besser als ihr Team? : Analyse am Beispiel von BWL-Professoren und ihren Zitationen
Dilger, Alexander - 2017
The example of German-speaking management professors is used to analyse whether team leaders, concretely deans, vice … their operative work, here research measured by publications and citations in Google Scholar, than other team members, in … explanations for no correlation or even a negative relationship between effective team leadership and normal work. …
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Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 5/6, pp. 619-637
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Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879332
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The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308454
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Do acquaintances and friends make us learn? : social capital and lifelong learning in Germany
Thum, Anna-Elisabeth; Bablavy, Miroslav - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between social capital and adult learning. We test this association empirically using measures of various types of social capital and adult learning based on the German Socioeconomic Panel. We use predetermined measures of social capital to exclude social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380538
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Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust
Ljunge, Martin - 2013
This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206754
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No man is an island : trust, trustworthiness, and social capital among Syrian refugees in Germany
El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021
We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the refugees' involvement in two different forms of social networking (forming bonding ties with other refugees vs. forming bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement...
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Border region attachment : an empirical study on regional social capital in the French-German border area
Wiens, Marcus; Klein, Miriam; Schultmann, Frank - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 68 (2022) 4, pp. 362-390
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Are happier people better citizens?
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people...
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Trust : a concept too many
Guinnane, Timothy - 2005
Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...
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