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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051051
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252455
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023761
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244610
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What Do Lost Wallets Tell Us about Survey Measures of Social Capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269488
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What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian; … - 2020
of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420687
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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296648
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Do natural disasters enhance societal trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research … social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country evidence of another important determinant of … trust - the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require (and provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283918
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240022