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The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined to what extent social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands make headway on the labor market and found that bridging networks are positively associated with both employment and income, while bonding networks do not affect economic outcomes.
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Social capital of organisations and their members. Explaning the political integration of immigrants in Amsterdam
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a distinction between determinants on the individual level and determinants at the group level, and suggest an explanatory model, which entails an interaction effect between individual determinants (i.e., organisational membership and the social network of the individual citizen) and the structure of the ethnic civic community as it is reflected in the network of ethnic organisations.
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Introduction: Social Capital in Scandinavia
Bo Rothstein,Dietlind Stolle +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how the concept of social capital relates to the Scandinavian context, and argued that the high level of Social Capital in the Scandinavian countries can be explained by (a) the high degree of economic equality, (b) the low level of patronage and corruption and (c) the predominance of universal non-discriminating welfare programmes.
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Caught in the Nexus: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis of Public Trust in the Press:
TL;DR: Based on comparative survey data from the World Values Survey (WVS), this article found that despite signs of declining press trust in many western countries, we know little about trends in press trust across the world.
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Neighbourhood-level effects on psychoses: re-examining the role of context.
TL;DR: SERFs at individual and neighbourhood levels were implicated in the aetiology of psychosis, but it was unable to determine whether these associations were causal.