Criminality, Social Cohesion and Economic Performance

Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of international panel data sets from different levels of regional aggregation. Our empirical results wi...

Economic and Social Cohesion Policy and Enlargement of the EU

ant Croatoslavia, politically, economically and culturally attractive to all Southern Slavs, including those still under Ottoman sovereignty. All of this was to have been sanctioned under a direct arrangement with the Austrian Crown without Hungarian co-tutelage. 7 Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905), bishop, patron of the arts, chief donator of the Yugoslav (today Croatian) Academyof Sciencesa...

Social Culture and Economic Performance

The connection between obtaining higher paying jobs and undertaking some seemingly irrelevant activity is interpreted as “social culture.” In the context of a society trying to adopt a new technology, I show that by allowing the firms to give preferential treatment to workers based on some “cultural activity,” the society can partially overcome an informational free-riding problem. Therefore, s...

Social Divergence and Economic Performance

School Social Fragmentation, Economic Deprivation and Social Cohesion and Adolescent Physical Inactivity: A Longitudinal Study

OBJECTIVES To examine the independent influence of school economic deprivation, social fragmentation, and social cohesion on the likelihood of participating in no physical activity among students. METHODS Data are from a large-scale longitudinal study of schools based in disadvantaged communities in Quebec, Canada. Questionnaires were administered every year between 2002 and 2008 among n = 14...