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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?

Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...

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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment

Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …

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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe

Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions...

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Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries from the 2000 and 2003 rounds of the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), using...

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Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization

Kaiser, Lutz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In 14 member states of the European Union, women’s relative to men’s levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration can be assigned to three different groups. Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands do not show...

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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify...

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