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NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 103, Issue 1

In this issue we feature 6 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

  1. An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games - Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Sutter, Matthia;
  2. Network Effects in Internal Migration - Laszlo Lorincz; Brigitta Nemeth;
  3. The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers - Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; Chávez, Mariana; Dean, Andre;
  4. Identity and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence - Sanjit Dhami; Emma Manifold; Ali al-Nowaihi;
  5. Immigration, Social Networks, and Occupational Mismatch - Sevak Alaverdyan; Anna Zaharieva;
  6. Ostracism in alliances of teams and individuals: Voting, exclusion, contribution, and earnings - Stephan Huber; Jochen Model; Silvio Städter.

Latest news on European Research in Learning and Work [L&W] - June 2019

In this edition of the L&W Newsletter you should note in particular several calls for papers relating to international conferences: the 22nd GeNeMe Conference "Communities in New Media" in Dresden, the TVET Conference 2020 in Pretoria (see Conferences) and the Cedefop/OECD symposium on apprenticeship (see Networks and Organisations); also a call for applications for the IPEP Winter School 2019 in Verona (see Programmes and Projects); calls for contributions to the Edited book for UFHRD and the Handbook of research on TVET (see Publications), and calls for proposals for the VET Research Award 2019 and the new EMCC Research Award (see Networks and Organisations). And not to overlook: the vacancy announcements for positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (see Networks and Organisations)!

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 102, Issue 1

In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 101, Issue 4

In this issue we feature 12 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 101, Issue 2

In this issue we feature 12 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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