How are social ties formed? : Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility
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Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor’s immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5 times larger than for renters.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013