Tiepoh, M. Geepu Nah and Reimer, Bill (2004) Social Capital, Information Flows, and Income Creation in Rural Canada: A Cross-Community Analysis. Journal of Socio-Economics, 33 (4). pp. 427-448. ISSN 1053-5357
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Abstract
We propose that (i) social capacity, defined as the ability of people to organize and use their social capital, does influence their level of income, and that (ii) this is because social capital use facilitates the flow of income-related knowledge and information between economic agents. Tests of these propositions based on a framework classifying social capital as a productive asset embedded in four types of social relations, and using data on household and community social capital for rural Canada, revealed some supportive evidence.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Sociology and Anthropology |
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| Item Type: | Article |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Authors: | Tiepoh, M. Geepu Nah and Reimer, Bill |
| Journal or Publication: | Journal of Socio-Economics |
| Date: | September 2004 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1016/j.socec.2004.04.007 |
| Keywords: | social capital; income; information; rural; development; economics |
| ID Code: | 6476 |
| Deposited By: | WILLIAM C. REIMER |
| Deposited On: | 18 Jan 2010 21:16 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 17:28 |
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