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stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet a key scientific difficulty tends to be downplayed, or even …
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neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …
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. Our regression results show that differences in supervisors' people skills, as well as workforce trust, social preferences …
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social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health. The magnitude of … and health in China. It is the most comprehensive analysis of this subject to date, both in the sizes of the samples it … improving health outcomes in China. …
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This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive … ancestral country characteristics. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health …
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demonstrate the impact of social trust and two forms of institutional trust (confidence towards national and regional institutions … to analyze this hypothesis: Civic Social Capital (denoting personal trust and associational activity) and Workplace … Social Capital (social interaction with colleagues and trust towards management). Based on a survey of 1007 employees I …
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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....
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