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The impact of social capital on crime: evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime … novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher … levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities' historical states in terms of …
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The impact of social capital on crime : evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Weel, Bas ter - In: Regional science & urban economics 42 (2012) 1/2, pp. 323-340
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The impact of social capital on crime : evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; Weel, Bas ter - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003804331
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Social Capital and Institutional Quality as Factors of Innovation : Evidence from Europe
Kaasa, Anneli - 2013
This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital and institutional quality are related to innovation activity and its utilisation. For reasons of data availability, previous studies have included mainly patenting data. This study complements the previous studies by analysing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711339
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Ethnicity and crime : a statewide analysis by local government areas in Victoria, Australia
Francisco, Ronald A.; Armstrong, Anona; Totikidis, Vicky - In: Asian and Pacific migration journal : APMJ 15 (2006) 2, pp. 201-217
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Measuring the bridging nature of voluntary organizations : a note on the importance of association size
Coffé, Hilde; Geys, Benny - 2007
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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment
Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
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Women and work : what role do social norms play?
Tolciu, Andreia; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010
Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make a complementary statement in explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950587
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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income
Dobler, Constanze - 2009
Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958864
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Protestantism and government spendig : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss Cantons
Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor);  … - 2007
Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...
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