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Diversity, social capital, and cohesion
Portes, Alejandro; Vickstrom, Erik - In: Migration : economic change, social challenge, (pp. 161-185). 2015
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Social capital, economic growth and regional development
Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040
Iyer S., Kitson M. and Toh B. (2005) Social capital, economic growth and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1015-1040. This paper examines the relationships between social capital, economic performance and regional development, and it stresses the complexity and variability across space...
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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 extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610585
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Social capital and managerial opportunism : evidence from option backdating
Gupta, Atul; Minnick, Kristina - In: The journal of financial research : the journal of the … 45 (2022) 3, pp. 579-605
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Efficiency, fairness, and social cohesion in Europe and the United States : incomes, hours of work, and equality with an afterhought on Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016
The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...
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The relationship between Stress, Strain and Social Capital
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
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Trust: A Concept Too Many
Guinnane, Timothy W. - 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 extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369194
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Trust and Growth
Dincer, Oguzhan; Uslaner, Eric - 2007
Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 … percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing …
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Local governance and the drivers of growth
2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443433
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Rechnungslegung international : Konzernabschlüsse nach IAS, US-GAAP, HGB und EG-Richtlinien
Born, Karl - 1997
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