Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, ...and what cities and firms produce.From Neighborhoods to Nationssynthesizes the recent economics of social interactions for anyone seeking to understand the contributions of this important area. Integrating theory and empirics, Yannis Ioannides explores theoretical and empirical tools that economists use to investigate social interactions, and he shows how a familiarity with these tools is essential for interpreting findings. The book makes work in the economics of social interactions accessible to other social scientists, including sociologists, political scientists, and urban planning and policy researchers.
Focusing on individual and household location decisions in the presence of interactions, Ioannides shows how research on cities and neighborhoods can explain communities' composition and spatial form, as well as changes in productivity, industrial specialization, urban expansion, and national growth. The author examines how researchers address the challenge of separating personal, social, and cultural forces from economic ones. Ioannides provides a toolkit for the next generation of inquiry, and he argues that quantifying the impact of social interactions in specific contexts is essential for grasping their scope and use in informing policy.
Revealing how empirical work on social interactions enriches our understanding of cities as engines of innovation and economic growth,From Neighborhoods to Nationscarries ramifications throughout the social sciences and beyond.
From the perspective of social integration as a two-way integration process of migrants and locals, based on the data of National Migrant Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey, this paper analyzes the ...impact of residential integration between the migrants and locals on the psychological dimension. It finds that inter-group residential integration has different effects on psychological integration between migrants and locals. Specifically, the scores of migrants' psychological integration are higher than those of locals; the policies which improves the situation of residential integration through self-owned housing and increased residential proximity between migrants and locals can significantly improve the migrants' psychological integration, but have few impacts on locals; intergroup contact can further enhance the promoting effect of residential proximity on social integration between two groups, which validates the theory of "intergroup contact". The future integration policy should include the promotion of
The document analyzes basic ideas and principles of research applied to problems of identity and social integration of different communities and interest groups. The author reviews national and ...international empirical research for the study of social cohesion. The applied method is the comparative analysis, which considers the conditions for the appearance and the mechanisms for the study of social integration in different social groups used by scientists from around the world. The conclusion is the summary of the main empirical results and the promising guidelines for the development of the study of social solidarity in world science. The research topic of this document shows a set of data for the precursors that define the conditions of the social environment.
This book deals with the impact of welfare states on immigrants' social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants' social rights ...across welfare states. To study immigrants' social rights the author develops an analytical framework that focuses on the interplay between 1) the type of welfare state regime, 2) forms of entry, or entry categories, and 3) the incorporation regime regulating the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants. The book maps out the development of immigrants' social rights from the early postwar period until around 2010 in six countries representing different welfare state regimes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden and Denmark. Part I addresses three major issues. The first is how inclusive or exclusionary welfare state policies are in relation to immigrants, and especially how the type of welfare state and incorporation regime affect their social rights. The second issue concerns changes in immigrant rights and the direction of the change: rights extension versus rights contraction. The third issue is how immigrants' social rights compare to those of citizens. Part II shifts from policies affecting immigrant rights to the politics of the policies. It examines the politics of inclusion and exclusion in the six countries, focusing on social rights extension and contraction and changes in the policy dimensions of the incorporation regime that impinge on immigrant rights.
This paper explores "hegemonic national integration" and "Francophonecentric national governance" in The Cameroons (TC) poetic scape. The former refers to La Republique du Cameroun (LRCj-British ...Southern Cameroons (BSC) or Southern Cameroons (SC) interconnectedness dominated by Francophones. The latter is governance that promotes a Francophone cultural superiority that refuses to see the Cameroonian world through Southern Cameroonians' eyes. Cameroonians live in a time of enormous fragmenting "Francophonizing" and "Anglophonizing" processes. To flesh this argument out, this paper borrows critical perspectives from Benhabib's "democratic iterations" and "deliberative democracy" and Rosenau's "six-governance typology' as requisites for good governance. It contends that "hegemonic national integration" and "Francophonecentric national governance" are pervasive features of Bill Ndi's poetry. Indeed, SC literature of the anti-Francophoncentrism kind such as Nkengasong's Across the Mongolo, Besong's Disgrace, Nyamnjoh's Souls Forgotten, etc., has not been recognized. For demonstrative purposes, focus will be on Ndi's Worth their Weight in Thorns, a glaring example of such works. TC in which the poems are set is ruled by a power-drunk elite and characterized by socioeconomic and politico-cultural marginalization which is symptomatic of "hegemonic national (dis)integration" and "Francophonecentric national governance". In TC, national integration and governance have become a kind of postcolonial re-racialization because the disparities between the wealthy/powerful Francophones and the poor/powerless Southern Cameroonians possess something akin to the racial character being witnessed in the USA. Consequently, reading Ndi's collection from this perspective reveals the ongoing rivalry between the dominant LRC and the dominated SC as a stellar representation of a master-servant relationship.
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Can information technology help to overcome the liabilities of globalization and cultural diversity, particularly when it comes to creation of exploratory innovations? ...This study answers in the affirmative. The authors argue that firms face difficulties in producing exploratory innovations because knowledge is often distributed across cultures and geographies. However, information technologies (IT) that promote social integration can help firms by overcoming the difficulties arising from global operations. In particular, the authors study the role of IT-enabled social integration capacity in affecting firm exploratory innovation. Analyzing data from 120 public U.S. manufacturing firms from 2003 to 2014, they find that social integration capacity has positive joint effects with global cultural diversity and with global geographical dispersion on exploratory innovation. In other words, firms can leverage social integration capacity to achieve greater exploratory innovation by turning the globalization liabilities into assets.
Although the ability to produce exploratory innovations is important for firm performance, firms face difficulties in producing exploratory innovations because knowledge is often distributed across cultures and geographies. In this study, we examine whether information technology (IT) helps firms to overcome the liabilities of global operations particularly when it comes to creation of exploratory innovations. We argue that information technologies that promote social integration facilitate more novel knowledge recombinations that help to overcome the difficulties arising from global operations. We draw on the knowledge-based view of the firm and hypothesize that IT-enabled social integration capacity influences exploratory innovation by enabling firms to leverage global cultural diversity and global geographical dispersion. Our empirical analyses using archival panel data from 120 public U.S. manufacturing firms from 2003 to 2014 support these hypotheses. A key implication of our results is that IT helps firms to achieve greater exploratory innovation by turning the potential liabilities of cultural diversity and geographical dispersion associated with global operations into assets.
This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the ...Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa,Coffins on Our Shouldersmerges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to the present. The authors weave vivid accounts and vignettes of family history into a sophisticated multidisciplinary analysis of the political drama that continues to unfold in the Middle East. Offering an authoritative inquiry into the traumatic events of October 2000, when thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during political demonstrations, the book culminates in a radical and thought-provoking blueprint for reform that few in Israel, in the Arab world, and in the West can afford to ignore.
America's approach to terrorism has focused on traditional national security methods, under the assumption that terrorism's roots are foreign and the solution to greater security lies in conventional ...practices. Europe offers a different model, with its response to internal terrorism relying on police procedures.Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11compares these two strategies and considers that both may have engendered greater radicalization--and a greater chance of home-grown terrorism. Essays address how transatlantic countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands have integrated ethnic minorities, especially Arabs and Muslims, since 9/11. Discussing the "securitization of integration," contributors argue that the neglect of civil integration has challenged the rights of these minorities and has made greater security more remote.
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