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This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …
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trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
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We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
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We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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This paper studies the relationship between trust and foreign direct investment (FDI) in a crosssection of countries …. Accounting for the issue endogeneity, this paper suggests that countries with a higher level of generalized trust attract more … FDI than the low-trust countries. …
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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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