Social capital and willingness to migrate in post-communist countries

Huber, Peter; Mikula, Štěpán

doi:10.1007/s10663-018-9417-7

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“…Consistently, EC brought a reduced individual self‐reliance (Bauernschuster & Rainer, 2012). More recent evidence suggests that after 20 years of communism, Eastern Germans exhibit weaker prosocial behaviour (Brosig‐Koch et al, 2011), an effect driven by changes in the cohorts socialized prior to the demise of Soviet communism (Huber & Mikula, 2019).…”

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Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance

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Nicińska

2023

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We study how exposure to (Soviet) communism (EC), a political‐economic regime based on collectivist state planning, affected the preferences for family support, which we refer to as informal family insurance. Against the backdrop that ‘communism gave rise to the abolition of the family’, we document that it actually strengthened the preference (the demand) for informal family insurance without depressing individuals' preferences for social insurance. We exploit cross‐country and cohort variation in EC on more than 314,000 individuals living in 33 Central and Eastern European countries, among which 14 had been subject to communist regimes. We estimate that EC gave rise to 9.6 percentage point (pp) increase in the preference for family care for older parent and 4.3 pp increase in the support (both financial and nonfinancial) for children. These effects are explained by the strengthening of social and family networks that resulted from the erosion of generalized, interpersonal and institutional trust, rather than by ‘indoctrination effects’ during Soviet communism times.

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Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance

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Nicińska

2023

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“…Meeting with relative and friends capture the level of family ties and derives from the following survey question: “How often do you meet up with friends or relatives who are not living with you in your household, on average?” Frequencies are 1 = On most days, 2 = Once or twice a week, 3 = Once or twice a month, 4 = Less than once or twice a month, 5 = Never. Following Huber and Mikula (2019) and David et al (2010), we created index by encoding these answers such as 1 if the answer was “on most days”, 2/7 if it was “once or twice a week”, 2/30 for “once or twice a month”, 1/60 for “less often” and 0 for “never”. This should effectively infer calculating the likelihood that a respondent meets relatives or friends on a given day (Huber & Mikula, 2019).…”

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“…Following Huber and Mikula (2019) and David et al (2010), we created index by encoding these answers such as 1 if the answer was "on most days", 2/7 if it was "once or twice a week", 2/30 for "once or twice a month", 1/60 for "less often" and 0 for "never". This should effectively infer calculating the likelihood that a respondent meets relatives or friends on a given day (Huber & Mikula, 2019).…”

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Corruption and life satisfaction: Evidence from a transition survey

Andriani

Ashyrov

2022

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Fighting corruption cannot lie exclusively on appropriate formal institutions. It also requires social support and public engagement. Particularly in countries under institutional and economic transition. We embrace the recent perspective arguing that higher quality of life conditions makes people better citizens, more civically committed and more conformed to institutional rules. Accordingly, we study whether life satisfaction is a predictor of individuals' corruption aversion across 28 former socialist countries from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We use data from the third wave

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“…Economic differences between the country of origin and destination are proxied by GDP per capita and their unemployment rates. The ethnic network, S ijt /P it , captured by the relative size of the migrant community born in country i and living in country j at t, can facilitate integration at the destination and lower the migration costs, thus increasing emigration (Beine et al, 2011;Bertoli & Ruyssen, 2018;Huber & Mikula, 2019;Pedersen et al, 2008). The relative population sizes of the receiving and sending countries (P jt ∕P it ) account for demographic developments.…”

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Reforms that keep you at home: The effects of economic transition on migration

Guzi

Mikula

2021

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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Social capital and willingness to migrate in post-communist countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance

Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance

Corruption and life satisfaction: Evidence from a transition survey

Reforms that keep you at home: The effects of economic transition on migration

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