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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development : The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

informal ties, voluntary organizations, and political participation. The quality of development exhibits a strong positive … participation proves to be irrelevant in terms of development and well-being. Finally, the role of public spending for education … development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing …

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When sociable workers pay off: Can firms internalize social capital externalities?

Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; Roseta-Palma, Catarina; … - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 127-136

We use an endogenous growth model to contrast the socially optimal allocation of human capital with the decentralized solution, in a context where workers make the choices that determine social capital accumulation. As social capital is expected to increase productivity but is not traded in...

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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...

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Social Capital

Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004

This paper 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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Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence

Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...

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Does social capital mitigate precariousness?

Sabatini, Fabio - 2008

of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run …, like, for example, human development and social cohesion. Second, it is still unclear what type of networks may exert a … positive effect on the different dimensions of development. In particular, the literature has not yet provided a rigorous …

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

labour productivity, the economic performance, and human development. On the contrary, the linking social capital of …

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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123

About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...

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New nationalism and development in Africa : review article

Kohnert, Dirk - 2009

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Determining Social Capital by Social Accounting

Friedrich, Peter - 2015

Although social capital has been often debated in the last 20 years, there is a widely accepted definition missing and the approaches to measure its size are not very developed. Therefore, the definitions of social capital are stated and analysed, whether they are appropriately designed also for...

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