scholarly journals Teaching Practices and Social Capital

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Algan ◽  
Pierre Cahuc ◽  
Andrei Shleifer
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Student Beliefs ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Cross Country

In cross-country data, teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are related to various dimensions of social capital. In micro-data from three datasets, teaching practices are also strongly correlated with student beliefs about cooperation across schools within countries. To address omitted variable and reverse causality concerns, we show that, within schools, teaching practices also have an independent and sizeable effect on student beliefs. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes the formation of social capital. (JEL D83, I21, Z13)

scholarly journals Microfinance Performance and Social Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luminita Postelnicu ◽  
Niels Hermes
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Cross Country

scholarly journals Teaching Practices and Social Capital

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Algan ◽  
Pierre Cahuc ◽  
Andrei Shleifer
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Teaching Practices

scholarly journals A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 323-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Colonnelli ◽  
Joacim Tåg ◽  
Michael Webb ◽  
Stefanie Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Large Firm ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Industry Trends ◽  
Over Time

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover substantial differences among them in the evolution of the wage premium over the past several decades. Moreover, we find no clear evidence of common cross-country industry trends. We conclude by discussing potential explanations for this heterogeneity, and proposing some questions for future work in the area.

scholarly journals When and how does volunteering influence wages? – Evidence from panel data

2020 ◽  
pp. 000169932090280
Author(s):  
Andreas Eberl ◽  
Gerhard Krug
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Impact Function ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Wage Regression ◽  
German Data

Volunteering is an activity in which individuals work for free to benefit others; however, research has also focused on the benefits volunteers themselves might experience. We add to the literature by focusing on how not only volunteering itself has an impact on wages but how the intensity, duration and timing of volunteering also have an effect on these. In addition, we distinguish between the effects on volunteers in the same job and when changing a job, and test the role of social capital. Using German data from the Socio-Economic Panel, we find that current volunteering has positive effects on wages in a fixed effects wage regression, especially if individuals volunteer with low to medium intensity. The duration of volunteering does not increase wages. However, based on the dummy impact function, we find that volunteering increases wages almost immediately and that this effect remains fairly constant over time. We find no indication that reverse causality drives this effect. Furthermore, we show that the wage benefits of volunteering are realized only through job changes, not on-the-job wage progression. With regard to job changers, we show that social capital accumulation through volunteering is one reason explaining the observed wage effects.

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