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Immigrant bilingualism in the German labour market : between human capital, social networks, and ethnic marginalisation
Markowsky, Eva; Wolf, Fridolin; Schäfer, Marie - 2022
We compare the earnings of monolingual and competent bilingual immigrants in Germany. A joint discussion of language skills as human capital or social capital and theories of ethnic marginalisation leads us to expect heterogeneous returns to bilingualism. To track this potential divergence, we...
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Soziales Kapital und Bildungserfolg : differentielle Renditen im Bildungsverlauf
Hoenig, Kerstin - 2019
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Social capital : a multifaceted perspective
Dasgupta, Partha (contributor);  … - 1999 - 1. print
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Societal trust and economic growth
Schmitz, Jan - 2009
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Popularity
Conti, Gabriella; Galeotti, Andrea; Mueller, Gerrit; … - 2012
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Measuring the bridging nature of voluntary organizations : a note on the importance of association size
Coffé, Hilde; Geys, Benny - 2007
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Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998
Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2003
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Limited network connections and the distribution of wages
Arrow, Kenneth Joseph; Borzekowski, Ron - 2004
limited network connections. The model implies that essentially similar workers can have markedly different wages and further … that the inequality of wages is partly explained by variations in the sizes of workers' networks. Our results indicate that … wages. We also show that reasonable differences in the average number of links between blacks and whites can explain the …
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Limited Network Connections and the Distribution of Wages
Arrow, Kenneth J.; Borzekowski, Ron - 2005
limited network connections. The model implies that essentially similar workers can have markedly different wages and further … that the inequality of wages is partly explained by variations in the sizes of workers' networks. Our results indicate that … wages. We also show that reasonable differences in the average number of links between blacks and whites can explain the …
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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