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Who trusts others? : community and individual determinants of social capital in a low income country
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2016
respondents, while religiosity tends not to play any role. Compared to religion, the effects of institutional trust and local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528173
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Social networks and the labour market mismatch
Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387154
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Diversity and social capital in the US : a tale of conflict, contact or total mistrust?
Belton, Willie James; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399002
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Ethnic diversity and trust : new evidence from Australian data
Mendolia, Silvia; Tosh, Alex; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity and the formation of an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance of trust in facilitating economic growth and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407700
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Environmental engagement, religion and spirituality in the context of secularization
Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2020
religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … increasingly important phenomenon which has received far less attention is that of spirituality, within/out the context of a … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388999
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Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401362
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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001
The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403912
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People people: social capital and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor);  … - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002630524
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany : moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932468
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Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values : the case of France
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of "work values" and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside the minority group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656905