How are social ties formed? Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility

Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor's immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5 times larger than for renters.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Yamamura, Eiji
Published in:	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics). - Elsevier, ISSN 2214-8043. - Vol. 40.2011, 5, p. 472-474
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Social ties \| Social capital \| Homeownership \| Length of residence

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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