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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...
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs … - that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages …
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors-conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …-that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages emerging …
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …
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Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and …. This study deals with the formation of social capital through development of human capital that is created from productive …
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The paper develops a simple model to exemplify how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering … empirical evidence that trust has led to faster growth of schooling in the period 1960-2000. The findings are robust to the …
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Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and …. This study deals with the formation of social capital through development of human capital that is created from productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260984