This article analyzes the role of different elements of social capital in economic growth for a sample of 85 European regions during the period 1995-2008. Much has been said about social capital in the last two decades, but studies for the European regional context are scant, and those analyzing...

Studying and working abroad, internationally mobile scientists meet foreign scientists and become carriers of knowledge. The benefits of international scientific mobility might extend to nonmobile colleagues who collaborate with mobile scientists. In this paper, we investigate the role played by...

The authors investigate the degree to which Protestant and Catholic churches differ in terms of their impact on the creation and development of social capital, as well as the ways in which membership in the churches’ social networks affect ethnic entrepreneurship.First, a review of the...