In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural households and the importance of assets in determining the capacity to undertake these activities. Controlling for endogeneity choice and applying Lee's generalization of Amemiya's two-step estimator to a simultaneous equation model, household ...

Ð The policy problems posed by a lack of state capacity in developing societies now attract the attention of a growing number of scholars. Both the government failure paradigm, with its ``top-down'' emphasis, and the social capital theory, with its stress on ``bottom-up'' approaches, provide analytical frameworks that can be used to comprehend the symptoms of state incapacity reported by the mu...

We consider a discrete-time two-sector Cobb-Douglas economy with positive sector specific external effects and partial depreciation of capital. We show that local indeterminacy of steady states and cycles can easily arise with constant social returns to scale, and very small market imperfections. However these properties of equilibrium paths become less likely in the case of partial depreciatio...

This study aims to explore the impact of social resources within the workplace on individuals' income level among Chinese urban residents, using data provided by JSNET2009. To adequately address the endogeneity problem, we use the first-order difference method to help identify analysis models. The results indicate that: (1) both internal and outward interactions have positive effects on income ...

BACKGROUND Prior studies on social capital and health have assessed social capital in residential neighbourhoods and communities, but the question whether the concept should also be applicable in workplaces has been raised. The present study reports on the psychometric properties of an 8-item measure of social capital at work. METHODS Data were derived from the Finnish Public Sector Study (N ...

intellectual capital is most vital enabler of enterprises. managing intellectual capital effectively can greatly enhance the competitive advantages of any enterprises. this study focused on how the enterprises utilize intellectual capital, in order to strengthen the competitiveness of enterprises. this research established a novel assessment model to measure the performance of intellectual capi...

In this study, the relationship between components of knowledge management on the basis of M. Mc olrvy model and social capital has been studied, statistical population consisted of employees of Ministry of Energy, who were selected among employees of Hamedan regional power and were 420 subjects. Research tool is a questionnaire and Spss statistical software is used for data analysis and struct...